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10 Best Movies Like City Island

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

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#1
Funeralopolis: A Suburban Portrait

Funeralopolis: A Suburban Portrait

2017★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to City Island for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Between Bresso, Sesto San Giovanni and Milan, we immerse ourselves in the lives of Vash and Felce, who together make music, do heroin and share everything. Their reality is sometim...

#2
Cœur fidèle

Cœur fidèle

1923★ 7.2

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

The good guys win out in this sweet tale about a young orphan who is abused for much of her life but who eventually finds happiness when she marries an honest man who extricates he...

#3
Every Day

Every Day

2010★ 5.1

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

Ned is in the throes of a mid-life crisis. His work as a writer on an outrageous, semi-pornographic TV show is less than satisfying. His fifteen year old son has just told him he i...

#4
Lackawanna Blues

Lackawanna Blues

2005★ 5.7

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

In a story fueled by rhythm and blues, a young boy's life is shaped by love and the stories of a cast of characters in the boarding house where he lives in 1960s Lackawanna, New Yo...

#5
Yonkers Joe

Yonkers Joe

2008★ 5.1

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

Yonkers Joe tells the story of a dice hustler whose determination to make one last grab for a big score in Vegas is complicated by the reappearance of his estranged, mentally chall...

#6
Jennifer Eight

Jennifer Eight

1992★ 6.1

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

John Berlin, a big-city cop from LA moves to a small-town police force and immediately finds himself investigating a murder. Using theories rejected by his colleagues, Berlin meets...