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10 Best Movies Like Gaining & Losing

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

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#1
Limelight

Limelight

1952★ 7.9

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

A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life....

#2
The Human Voice

The Human Voice

2020★ 6.7

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

A woman watches time pass beside the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn't understand that his master ha...

#3
Mao’s Last Dancer

Mao’s Last Dancer

2009★ 6.6

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

At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, ...

#4
Black Swan

Black Swan

2010★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Gaining & Losing for fans of Drama. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

The story of Nina, a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life, like all those in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her retired balleri...

#5
Frankie & Alice

Frankie & Alice

2010★ 5.9

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

A drama centered on a go-go dancer with multiple personality disorder who struggles to remain her true self and begins working with a psychotherapist to uncover the mystery of the ...

#6
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

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

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site ...

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