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10 Best Movies Like I Was Here

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

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#1
Trainspotting

Trainspotting

1996★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Was Here for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends --Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane...

#2
Adulthood

Adulthood

2008★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Was Here for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After serving six years for killing his schoolmate, a young man learns that someone is out for revenge....

#3
Winged Creatures

Winged Creatures

2009★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Was Here for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts h...

#4
Layer Cake

Layer Cake

2004★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Was Here for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save...

#5
The Preppie Connection

The Preppie Connection

2016★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Was Here for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A student at a private school uses his connections to establish a drug trafficking network....

#6
Above the Rim

Above the Rim

1994★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Was Here for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now empl...

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