Barfly (1987)

Top 10 Bar Movies

Here is a group of movies where the location is primarily set in a bar or club:

Casablanca (1942)
Director: Michael Curtiz
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid
A WWII fighter running a saloon comes across an ex love who had ditched him in Paris.
Quote: “Here’s looking at you, kid.”

Strange Brew (1983)
Director: Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas
Starring: Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas, Max von Sydow
Everywhere, including a brewery, is a bar for Canadian hosers Bob and Doug Mackenzie.
Quote: “My brother and I used to say that drowning in beer was like heaven, eh?”

BarFly (1987)
Director: Barbet Schroeder
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Faye Dunaway, Alice Krige
Success writing poetry doesn’t stop the pursuit of alcohol for barfly’s Henry and Wanda.
Quote: “No money, no job, no rent. Hey, I’m back to normal.”

Cocktail (1988)
Director: Roger Donaldson
Starring: Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown, Elisabeth Shue
Bottles fly as a young entrepreneur tries to find success as a bartender.
Quote: “Coughlin’s Law; Anything else is always something better.”

Road House (1989)
Director: Rowdy Herrington
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Sam Elliott, Kelly Lynch
Meeting numerous obstacle, a cooler is hired to clean up a local bar.
Quote: “I’ll get all the sleep I need when I’m dead.”

From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Starring: George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino, Harvey Keitel
The Gecko brothers have to survive the night in a vampire infested strip bar.
Quote: “Those acts of God really stick it in and break it off, don’t they?”

Trees Lounge (1996)
Director: Steve Buscemi
Starring: Steve Buscemi, Carol Kane, Mark Boone Junior
After losing his job and his girl, Tommy spends his days in a lounge pondering his misery.
Quote: “If I win, I get to take you home. If you win, you can go home with me.”

Swingers (1996)
Director: Doug Liman
Starring: Jon Favreau, Vince Vaughn, Ron Livingston
After losing his girl, pals try to help a guy forget about it by hitting the club scene.
Quote: “I want you to remember this face. This is the guy behind the guy behind the guy.”

Studio 54 (1998)
Director: Mark Christopher
Starring: Ryan Phillippe, Mike Myers, Neve Campbell
The rise and fall of the late Steve Rubell, owner of the infamous 70’s Disco Studio 54.
Quote: “It was a place where all labels were left behind. A place where there were no rules.”

Coyote Ugly (2000)
Director: David McNally
Starring: Piper Perabo, Adam Garcia, Maria Bello
To make ends meet while she goes to school, a woman teases the guys at the latest club.
Quote: “I’m not lost. Somebody just moved my street.”

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Barfly trailer

Barfly $16.99 The script for this movie was written by outrageous poet-author-alcoholic Charles Bukowski. But director Barbet Schroeder makes it into an oddly amusing story of a pugnacious drunk writer (Mickey Rourke) based on Bukowski himself. Rourke spends almost all of his time at the bar, struggling with sobriety (he's against it) and, occasionally, having fistfights with the bartender (Frank Stallone). He ...

Barfly $19.98 The script for this movie was written by outrageous poet-author-alcoholic Charles Bukowski. But director Barbet Schroeder makes it into an oddly amusing story of a pugnacious drunk writer (Mickey Rourke) based on Bukowski himself. Rourke spends almost all of his time at the bar, struggling with sobriety (he's against it) and, occasionally, having fistfights with the bartender (Frank Stallone). He ...

Barfly (1987) ( Bar fly ) [ Blu-Ray, Reg.A/B/C Import - Australia ] $36.99 Australia released, Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C : it WILL NOT play on regular DVD player. You need Blu-Ray DVD player to view this Blu-Ray DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital Stereo ), WIDESCREEN (1.85:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Commentary, Documentary, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: Charles Bukowski, the talented crown prince of self-abuse, wrote the short stories upon which the su...

BARFLY: A CONVERSATION WITH CHARLES BUKOWSKI. ...

Press kit for the 1987 film Barfly starring Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway. ...