Movies like Atonement
If Atonement's mix of new love, sibling relationship and wind stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Atonement's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Cruel Intentions
1999 · Directed by Roger Kumble · 97 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: sibling relationship, innocence · 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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Monster's Ball
2001 · Directed by Marc Forster · 113 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: new love, loss of loved one · Also drama and romance · From the same decade (2000s)
A prison guard begins a tentative romance with the unsuspecting widow of a man whose execution he presided over.
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The End of the Affair
1999 · Directed by Neil Jordan · 102 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: world war ii, london blitz · Also romance and drama
On a rainy London night in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, husband of his ex-mistress Sarah, who abruptly ended their affair two years before.
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Inventing the Abbotts
1997 · Directed by Pat O'Connor · 110 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: new love, 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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Brothers
2009 · Directed by Jim Sheridan · 105 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: sibling relationship, loss of loved one · From the same decade (2000s)
When his helicopter goes down during his fourth tour of duty in Afghanistan, Marine Sam Cahill is presumed dead. Back home, brother Tommy steps in to look over Sam’s wife, Grace, and two children.
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Lolita
1962 · Directed by Stanley Kubrick · 154 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: loss of loved one, flirt
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed…
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The Lion King
1994 · Directed by Roger Allers · 89 min8.3
Why you'll like itShares: loss of loved one, redemption
Young lion prince Simba, eager to one day become king of the Pride Lands, grows up under the watchful eye of his father Mufasa; all the while his villainous uncle Scar conspires to take the throne for himself.
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Spider-Man: No Way Home
2021 · Directed by Jon Watts · 148 min7.9
Why you'll like itWith Benedict Cumberbatch · Shares: loss of loved one
Peter Parker is unmasked and no longer able to separate his normal life from the high-stakes of being a super-hero. When he asks for help from Doctor Strange the stakes become even more dangerous, forcing him to…
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The Immigrant
2013 · Directed by James Gray · 117 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: sibling relationship · Also drama and romance
1921 New York. An immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with her sister who is being held in the confines of Ellis Island.
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Kes
1970 · Directed by Ken Loach · 111 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: sibling relationship
Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes.
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The Wonder
2022 · Directed by Sebastián Lelio · 108 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: nurse
Haunted by her past, a nurse travels from England to a remote Irish village in 1862 to investigate a young girl's supposedly miraculous fast.