Movies like Brooklyn
Brooklyn (2015) is a history movie directed by John Crowley. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Anora (2024)
★ 7.1 · 3,540 votes · Drama, Comedy, Romance
A young sex worker from Brooklyn gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as his parents set out to get the marriage annulled.
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2. Never Let Me Go (2010)
★ 6.8 · 2,550 votes · Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy spend their childhood at an idyllic and secluded English boarding school. As they grow into adults, they must come to terms with the complexity and strength of their love for one another while also preparing for the haunting reality awaiting them.
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3. It Ends with Us (2024)
★ 6.9 · 2,065 votes · Drama, Romance
When a woman's first love suddenly reenters her life, her relationship with a charming, but abusive neurosurgeon is upended, and she realizes she must learn to rely on her own strength to make an impossible choice for her future.
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4. The Secret Scripture (2017)
★ 7.2 · 334 votes · Drama, Romance
The hidden memoir of an elderly woman confined to a mental hospital reveals the history of her passionate yet tortured life, and of the religious and political upheavals in Ireland during the 1920s and 30s.
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5. The Sun Is Also a Star (2019)
★ 6.9 · 639 votes · Romance, Drama
Two young New Yorkers begin to fall in love over the course of a single day, as a series of potentially life-altering meetings loom over their heads - hers concerning her family’s deportation to Jamaica, and his concerning an education at Dartmouth.
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6. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
★ 7.6 · 14,134 votes · Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years after his birth, he meets Daisy, a child who flits in and out of his life as she grows up to be a dancer. Though he has all sorts of unusual adventures over the course of his life, it is his relationship with Daisy, and the hope that they will come together at the right time, that drives Benjamin forward.
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7. Past Lives (2023)
★ 7.7 · 2,502 votes · Drama, Romance
After decades apart, childhood friends Nora and Hae Sung are reunited in New York for one fateful weekend as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.
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8. Everything, Everything (2017)
★ 7.2 · 3,779 votes · Drama, Romance
A teenager who's lived a sheltered life because she's allergic to everything, falls for the boy who moves in next door.
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9. In the Heights (2021)
★ 7.1 · 823 votes · Drama, Romance
The story of Usnavi, a bodega owner who has mixed feelings about closing his store and retiring to the Dominican Republic or staying in Washington Heights.
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10. The Age of Innocence (1993)
★ 7.0 · 1,260 votes · Drama, Romance
In 19th century New York high society, a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.
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11. West Side Story (2021)
★ 6.9 · 1,859 votes · Drama, Romance, Crime
Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.
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