Movies Like Pearls
If you liked Pearls (2024), a drama movie directed by Mike Simms, 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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The Crush (1993)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaA precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.
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Defiance (2008)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaBased on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly…
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The Wolf and the Lion (2021)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaAfter her grandfather's death, 20-year-old Alma decides to go back to her childhood home - a little island in the heart of the majestic Canadian forest. Whilst there, she rescues two helpless cubs: a wolf and a lion…
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Emperor of the North (1973)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaHobos encounter a sadistic railway conductor that will not let anyone "ride the rails" for free.
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Endless Night (2015)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaEllesmere Island, northern Canada, 1908. Josephine, a brave but naive woman, embarks on a dangerous journey through inhospitable regions in search of her husband, the explorer Robert Peary, who tries to find a route to…
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Six Minutes to Midnight (2020)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaSummer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors for a future looking National Socialist. A teacher…
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Against the Ice (2022)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaIn 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they're left behind while on a Danish expedition in ice-covered Greenland.
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Of Mice and Men (1992)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaTwo drifters, one a gentle but slow giant, try to make money working the fields during the Depression so they can fulfill their dreams.
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The Experiment (2010)
★ 6.4/10Also drama20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
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What Maisie Knew (2013)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaIn New York City, six-year-old Maisie is caught in the middle of a bitter custody battle between her self-absorbed parents—an aging rock singer mother and a distracted art dealer father. As both quickly marry new…
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Genius (2016)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaNew York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown…
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The Good Neighbor (2022)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaA nightmarish evening unfolds for neighbors David and Robert when they accidentally hit a woman on her bike and flee the scene. While David is increasingly plagued by feelings of guilt, Robert shows no remorse and…
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Train Dreams (2025)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaA logger leads a life of quiet grace as he experiences love and loss during an era of monumental change in early 20th-century America.
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Wildlife (2018)
★ 6.6/10Also drama14-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry — a housewife and a golf pro — in a small town in 1960s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled forest fire rages close to the Canadian border, and when Jerry loses his…
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Mammal (2016)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaAfter Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the…
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The Hateful Eight (2015)
★ 7.8/10Also dramaBounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.
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Good One (2024)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaOn a weekend backpacking trip in the Catskills, 17-year-old Sam contends with the competing egos of her father and his oldest friend.
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The Convert (2024)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaMunro, a soldier turned lay preacher, comes to New Zealand to minister to the first British colonists, but he is converted by the powerful chief Maianui to serve a different purpose.
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Oslo (2021)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaThe true story of negotiations between implacable enemies — the secret back-channel talks, unlikely friendships and quiet heroics of a small but committed group of Israelis, Palestinians and one Norwegian couple that…
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Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher (2022)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaAt the turn of the 19th century, Pugilism was the sport of kings and a gifted young boxer fought his way to becoming champion of England.