The Lost Weekend (1945)

Longtime alcoholic Don Birnam has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last – one way or another.

Genres: Drama

What to watch after The Lost Weekend

• The Roaring Twenties (1939) — Same feel: realistic, dramatic
• Sunset Boulevard (1950) — Same subject: film noir
• Double Indemnity (1944) — Billy Wilder directed both
• Midnight (1939) — Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett wrote for both
• Midnight Cowboy (1969) — Same feel: painful, realistic
• Beau Geste (1939) — Ray Milland appears in both