Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 14, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Eli

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

🏆

Expert Review & Ratings

See our full critical analysis and audience score for Eli.

View Review →
Advertisement
#1
Jerichow

Jerichow

2009★ 6.5

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

In a small Northern German town, a dishonourably discharged Afghanistan veteran is offered a job as a deliveryman by an alcoholic Turkish entrepreneur, through which the former mee...

#2
Antares

Antares

2004★ 5.9

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

A deadly car crash sets off three parallel stories of women at crisis points, faltering behind the doors of the same, plain Vienna apartment block....

#3
Goodbye Berlin

Goodbye Berlin

2016★ 6.7

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

Maik, a fourteen-year-old teenager, sets out on a road trip during summertime with Tschick, a new classmate, in a stolen car. The two share life changing experiences during the eve...

#4
Phoenix

Phoenix

2014★ 6.8

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

In the aftermath of WWII, German-Jewish cabaret singer Nelly has to undergo facial reconstructive surgery following her survival from Auschwitz. Without recognising Nelly, her form...

#5
A Royal Runaway Romance

A Royal Runaway Romance

2022★ 7.2

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

Princess Amelia of Bundbury travels across America to explore a budding romance with an artist, only to fall in love with her bodyguard, Grady....

#6
The Reader

The Reader

2008★ 7.5

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

The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one...

Advertisement