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10 Best Movies Like Breaking and Entering

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

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#1
$5 a Day

$5 a Day

2008★ 5.6

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

After being released from jail, the son of a con man joins his father on the road....

#2
Truly Madly Deeply

Truly Madly Deeply

1991★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Breaking and Entering for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Nina is totally heartbroken at the death of her boyfriend Jamie, but is even more unprepared for his return as a ghost. At first it's almost as good as it used to be – hey, even th...

#3
Worried About the Boy

Worried About the Boy

2010★ 6.3

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

In 1980 young George O'Dowd baffles his parents with his love of frocks and make-up and moves into a squat with kindred spirit Peter, who dresses as Marilyn Monroe and calls himsel...

#4
The White Reindeer

The White Reindeer

1952★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Breaking and Entering for fans of Fantasy. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A newly-married woman becomes frustrated as her husband, a reindeer herder for an Arctic village, spends much of his time away. Desperate for affection, she visits a shaman who off...

#5
I ♥ Huckabees

I ♥ Huckabees

2004★ 6.3

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

A husband-and-wife team play detective, but not in the traditional sense. Instead, the happy duo helps others solve their existential issues, the kind that keep you up at night, wo...

#6
Good Night, and Good Luck.

Good Night, and Good Luck.

2005★ 7.1

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

The story of journalist Edward R. Murrow's stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s....