Movies like The Immigrant
If The Immigrant's mix of immigrant, ship and quarantine stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what The Immigrant's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Two Lovers
2008 · Directed by James Gray · 110 min6.9
Why you'll like itAlso directed by James Gray · With Joaquin Phoenix · Also drama and romance
A depressed man moves back in with his parents following a recent heartbreak and finds himself with two women.
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Cruel Intentions
1999 · Directed by Roger Kumble · 97 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: sibling relationship, love · Also drama and romance
Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower their headmaster's daughter before the summer ends. If he succeeds, the prize is the chance to bed Kathryn.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010 · Directed by David Yates · 146 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: corruption, escape, magic · From the same decade (2010s)
Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for immortality.
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Inventing the Abbotts
1997 · Directed by Pat O'Connor · 110 min6.3
Why you'll like itWith Joaquin Phoenix · Shares: sibling relationship · Also drama and romance
In the 1950s, brothers Jacey and Doug Holt, who come from the poorer side of their sleepy Midwestern town, vie for the affections of the wealthy, lovely Abbott sisters.
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Tideland
2005 · Directed by Terry Gilliam · 120 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: magic, illness
Because of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit country estate and survives inside her fantastic imagination.
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Atonement
2007 · Directed by Joe Wright · 123 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: sibling relationship · Also drama and romance
A young girl irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
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Léon: The Professional
1994 · Directed by Luc Besson · 111 min8.3
Why you'll like itShares: immigrant, corruption
Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year-old Mathilda.
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The Wolf of Wall Street
2013 · Directed by Martin Scorsese · 180 min8.0
Why you'll like itShares: corruption, money · From the same decade (2010s)
A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.
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Room
2015 · Directed by Lenny Abrahamson · 118 min8.0
Why you'll like itShares: escape · From the same decade (2010s)
Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.
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Eyes Wide Shut
1999 · Directed by Stanley Kubrick · 159 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: doctor
After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter.
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The Lighthouse
2019 · Directed by Robert Eggers · 109 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: nightmare · From the same decade (2010s)
Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
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The Talented Mr. Ripley
1999 · Directed by Anthony Minghella · 140 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: ship
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S.