Movies Like At the Gates
If you liked At the Gates (2023), a drama movie directed by Augustus Meleo Bernstein, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Crossing Over (2009)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaImmigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better life, but little notion of what that life may cost. Their desperate scenarios test the humanity of immigration enforcement…
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Night Always Comes (2025)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaFacing eviction in a city her family can no longer afford, a woman plunges into a desperate and increasingly dangerous all-night search to raise $25,000.
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Dirty Pretty Things (2002)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaAn undocumented immigrant finds a human heart in one of the toilets of the west London hotel where he works with other undocumented immigrants.
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Lakeview Terrace (2008)
★ 6/10Also dramaA young interracial couple has just moved into their California dream home when they become the target of their next-door neighbor, who disapproves of their relationship. A tightly wound LAPD officer has appointed…
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Rogue Agent (2022)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaConman Robert Freegard poses as an undercover MI5 agent and kidnaps countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt, until the woman who fell for him brings him to justice.
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Trafficked (2017)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaIn this story inspired by real characters, three girls from America, Nigeria and India are trafficked through an elaborate global network and enslaved in a Texas brothel, and must together attempt a daring escape to…
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uwantme2killhim? (2013)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaBased on the Vanity Fair article of the same title, a story about a young boy drawn into a web of lies through an online chatroom.
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The Nest (2020)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaRory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban…
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Panic Room (2002)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaTrapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three…
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The Young One (1960)
★ 7/10Also dramaA jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
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Argo (2012)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaAs the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.
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Butterfly on a Wheel (2007)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaA sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.
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The Rivals of Amziah King (2026)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaDeep within the backwoods of rural Oklahoma, charismatic and musically gifted Amziah King herds a bluegrass-playing band of misfits while overseeing the premier honey-making operation in town. When Amziah’s estranged…
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Pacific Heights (1990)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaA couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately one of their tenants has plans of his own.
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Mexicali (2026)
★ 7.7/10Also dramaA former special forces contractor is forced out of retirement as an avocado farmer in Mexico when local gangsters try to force him and his family off their farm.
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Goodbye June (2025)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaFour siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.
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Girl in the Bunker (2018)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaWhen Elizabeth is abducted by a fugitive sexual predator, she realizes she must take matters into her own hands and plot her escape. Based on a true story.
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Being Flynn (2012)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaWorking in a Boston homeless shelter, Nick Flynn re-encounters his father, a con man and self-proclaimed poet. Sensing trouble in his own life, Nick wrestles with the notion of reaching out yet again to his dad.
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40 Acres (2025)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaHailey Freeman and her family are the last descendants of African American farmers who settled in rural Canada after the Civil War. In a famine-decimated near future, they now struggle to safeguard their farm, as they…
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Addicted (2014)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaA gallerist risks her family and flourishing career when she enters into an affair with a talented painter and slowly loses control of her life.