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10 Best Movies Like Brooklyn

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

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#1
The Secret Scripture

The Secret Scripture

2017★ 7.3

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

The hidden memoir of an elderly woman confined to a mental hospital reveals the history of her passionate yet tortured life, and of the religious and political upheavals in Ireland...

#2
Raintree County

Raintree County

1957★ 6.4

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

In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither by Susanna Drake, a rich New Orleans ...

#3
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

1945★ 7.5

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

In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: A...

#4
Persuasion

Persuasion

2007★ 7.2

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

Anne Elliot was once in love with Frederick Wentworth, a commander in the Royal Navy who was rejected by her snobby parents eight years ago. When the family hits hard times and are...

#5
Persuasion

Persuasion

1995★ 7.1

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

In early 19th-century England, dire financial straits reacquaint the aristocratic Anne Elliot with her wealthy ex-fiance Frederick Wentworth. The two must choose between either put...

#6
Come See the Paradise

Come See the Paradise

1990★ 6.2

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

In this drama from director Alan Parker, on-the-lam Jack McGurn flees to Los Angeles and takes a job as a projectionist at a movie theater owned by a Japanese-American man. Jack fa...

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