Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Jan 22, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Island

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

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#1
Vox Lux

Vox Lux

2018★ 5.8

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

In 1999, teenage sisters Celeste and Eleanor survive a seismic, violent tragedy. The sisters compose and perform a song about their experience, making something lovely and catharti...

#2
Going Places

Going Places

1974★ 6.7

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

Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. They take whatever the bourgeoisie holds dea...

#3
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

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

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....

#4
Titanic

Titanic

1997★ 7.9

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

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and...

#5
Call Me by Your Name

Call Me by Your Name

2017★ 8.1

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

In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-...

#6
Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

2023★ 8.0

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

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II....