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10 Best Movies Like 501

If you loved 501, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Peasants

The Peasants

1939★ 5.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 501 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A historical revolutionary film depicting the struggle of peasants and the Baku proletariat against landowners and Musavatists in 1919....

#2
Más allá de lo común

Más allá de lo común

2024★ 8.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 501 for fans of Sci-Fi. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Pili, a 51-year-old widow, unexpectedly leaves her home when, on her way, she is interrupted by the presence of an alien. After trying to tell her children about the extraterrestri...

#3
Devil's Island

Devil's Island

1979★ 5.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 501 for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

After Italian capitulation in WW2, German forces are rushing to take control of the Dalmatian coast, forcing thousands of people to take refuge. One partisan boat, filled with refu...

#4
The Delinquents

The Delinquents

1960★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 501 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A group of friends who are struggling to survive in the slums of Madrid commit petty crime in order to finance the debut as a bullfighter of one of them....

#5
Golden Horseshoes

Golden Horseshoes

1989★ 4.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 501 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Youssef Soltane, a 45-year-old Tunisian intellectual, is the product of a generation that lived the era of euphoria and great ideologies in the sixties, and their subsequent failur...

#6
Let Her Cry

Let Her Cry

2016★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 501 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When an alluring young undergrad becomes infatuated with her nearly retired professor, she stirs up the man's humdrum home life in a most unusual way....