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10 Best Movies Like Jar City

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

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#1
Elizabeth

Elizabeth

1998★ 7.2

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

The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endless attempts by her council to marry her off, the Catholic hatred of her and her ...

#2
The Inheritor

The Inheritor

1973★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Jar City for fans of Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance: to lead the industrial empire his father built. But when a prostitu...

#3
Backcountry

Backcountry

2015★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Jar City for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A couple on a deep-wilderness hike become hopelessly lost within an aggressive black bear's territory....

#4
Work Hard Play Hard

Work Hard Play Hard

2012★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Jar City for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A film about non-territorial office space, multi-mobile knowledge workers, Blackberries and Miles&More. A road movie discovering the working world of tomorrow. This documentary wil...

#5
2012

2012

2009★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Jar City for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heatin...

#6
Titanic

Titanic

1997★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Jar City 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...