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10 Best Movies Like Margaret

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

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#1
Shun Li and the Poet

Shun Li and the Poet

2011★ 6.9

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

A study of the friendship between a Chinese woman and a fisherman who came to Italy from Yugoslavia many years ago, who live in a small city-island in the Veneto lagoon....

#2
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead

Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead

2015★ 6.6

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

A look at the history of the American comedy publication and production company, National Lampoon, from its beginning in the 1970s to 2010, featuring rare and never before seen foo...

#3
The Loneliest Planet

The Loneliest Planet

2012★ 5.7

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

Backpacking in the Caucasus Mountains, walking for hours, an engaged couple and their tour guide trade anecdotes and play games to pass the time, until a momentary misstep, that ta...

#4
Red Knot

Red Knot

2014★ 5.6

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

Peter and Chloe, a young married couple from New York, decide on impulse to take a belated honeymoon on-board a research vessel en route to the icy wastes of Antarctica. Not long i...

#5
How to Avoid Everything

How to Avoid Everything

2014★ 6.2

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

A 30-something slacker finds his carefree life turned upside down when he falls for his sister's teenage babysitter....

#6
Markova: Comfort Gay

Markova: Comfort Gay

2000★ 7.2

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

Escaping the torment of growing up with an abusive older brother, he and his friends found further suffering at the hands of Japanese soldiers, forced into sex work to survive. But...