10 Films To Get You In The Mood For David Fincher's Mank

It should be no surprise that watching Citizen Kane is going to get you in the mood for a film about the making of Citizen Kane. That obvious reason aside, there are many facets to this complex and rightly lauded drama that are perfect for priming you for Mank.

Telling the tale of newspaper magnet Charles Foster Kane by way of flashbacks from the perspectives of those who knew him, the past raked up by a journalist trying to figure out the meaning behind the great man's dying word 'rosebud,' Citizen Kane will surprise any first time viewers for how ahead of its time it was.

A complex examination of one flawed man's life, Mank is set to take the same sort of nuanced look at a flawed but utterly human character at the heart of its story. And considering that Mank is about the making of Citizen Kane, Welles' original is absolutely essential pre-Mank viewing.