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10 Best Movies Like Applicant

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

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#1
Scandalous Sex

Scandalous Sex

2004★ 6.9

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

A daughter seeks to restore the reputation of her disgraced father, a wronged college professor. With help of a professional student, she must overcome an ambitious sorority bitch ...

#2
Tigertail

Tigertail

2020★ 6.7

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

A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter....

#3
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

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

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of gettin...

#4
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#5
God's Pocket

God's Pocket

2014★ 5.8

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

A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist and the young man's mother complicate matters....

#6
Inseparable

Inseparable

2007★ 7.1

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

When young dad, Joe, discovers he's dying, drifter Charlie is given a unique opportunity to turn his life around. A story of family, identity and starting again....

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