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10 Best Movies Like 5000 Blankets

If you loved 5000 Blankets, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Dances with Wolves

Dances with Wolves

1990★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 5000 Blankets for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, a...

#2
Return to Me

Return to Me

2000★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 5000 Blankets for fans of Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

It took a lot of cajoling to get Bob, a recently widowed architect, to go on a blind date at a quirky Irish-Italian eatery. Once there, he's smitten instantly not with his date but...

#3
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 5000 Blankets for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....

#4
Titanic

Titanic

1997★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 5000 Blankets for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and...

#5
Shutter Island

Shutter Island

2010★ 8.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 5000 Blankets for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by tro...

#6
Back to the Future

Back to the Future

1985★ 8.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 5000 Blankets for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty mu...