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10 Best Movies Like Local Color

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

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#1
What's Eating Gilbert Grape

What's Eating Gilbert Grape

1993★ 7.7

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

Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are his mother, who is so overweight that she can't leave the house, and his mentally...

#2
Love and Other Disasters

Love and Other Disasters

2006★ 5.7

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

Flighty Emily "Jacks" Jackson works for the British edition of Vogue magazine. Rather than pursue a relationship, Jacks regularly hooks up with her devoted ex-boyfriend, James Wild...

#3
Titanic

Titanic

1997★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Local Color 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...

#4
PK

PK

2014★ 7.7

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

A stranger in the city asks questions no one has asked before. Known only by his initials, the man's innocent questions and childlike curiosity take him on a journey of love, laugh...

#5
Ex Machina

Ex Machina

2015★ 7.6

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

Caleb, a coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But ...

#6
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Local Color 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....