Seen everything by John Schlesinger?
If you've already watched everything John Schlesinger directed, here are 12 films from other directors that share the orbit of Midnight Cowboy — the catalog's mood-cluster and similarity-graph neighbours, filtered to exclude John Schlesinger's own filmography. Where to go next. (Also: John Schlesinger's full filmography · where to start with John Schlesinger.)
Mysterious Skin
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My Own Private Idaho
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The Talented Mr. Ripley
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Dances with Wolves
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Jules and Jim
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Mamma Roma
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The Wedding Banquet
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The Color Purple
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Love, Simon
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The Reader
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Milk
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