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10 Best Movies Like Good Pretender

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

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#1
Return

Return

2011★ 6.4

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

Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes....

#2
God's Pocket

God's Pocket

2014★ 5.8

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

A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist and the young man's mother complicate matters....

#3
Norman

Norman

2010★ 6.1

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

A teenager pretends to be dying from cancer as a way to cope with the realities of his daily existence and his father's terminal illness....

#4
Salomé

Salomé

2013★ 6.2

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

After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his k...

#5
El Chicano

El Chicano

2019★ 6.6

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

A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law....

#6
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020★ 6.2

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

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....

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