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10 Best Movies Like Marilyn

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

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#1
Two Moon Junction

Two Moon Junction

1988★ 6.0

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

A young Southern débutante temporarily abandons her posh lifestyle and upcoming, semi-arranged marriage to have a lustful and erotic fling with a rugged drifter who works at a loca...

#2
Straw Dogs

Straw Dogs

2011★ 5.9

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

A young couple moves to a quaint southern town. Soon their perfect getaway turns out to become a living hell when dark secrets and lethal passions spiral out of control....

#3
Duel in the Sun

Duel in the Sun

1946★ 6.3

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

Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad....

#4
8 Seconds

8 Seconds

1994★ 7.2

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

This film chronicles the life of Lane Frost, 1987 PRCA Bull Riding World Champion, his marriage and his friendships with Tuff Hedeman (three-time World Champion) and Cody Lambert....

#5
Giant

Giant

1956★ 7.6

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

Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She marries Benedict, but she is sh...

#6
Welcome to the Rileys

Welcome to the Rileys

2010★ 6.6

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

Years after their teenage daughter’s death, Lois and Doug Riley, an upstanding Indiana couple, are frozen by estranging grief. Doug escapes to New Orleans on a business trip. Compe...

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