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10 Best Movies Like Arrival

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

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#1
Station for Two

Station for Two

1983★ 7.3

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

Platon Ryabinin, a pianist, is traveling by train to a distant town of Griboedov to visit his father. He gets off to have lunch during a twenty minute stop at Zastupinsk railway st...

#2
Iron Jawed Angels

Iron Jawed Angels

2004★ 6.8

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

Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote....

#3
I'm Here

I'm Here

2010★ 7.2

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

A library assistant plods through an ordinary life in LA until a chance meeting opens his eyes to the power of creativity and ultimately, love. When this new life and love begin to...

#4
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

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

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell....

#5
A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate

A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate

1923★ 6.8

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

When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave for Paris on her own. After spending a year in the city as a mistress of the wealt...

#6
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020★ 6.2

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

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....

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