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10 Best Movies Like Melting Away

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

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#1
Michael

Michael

2011★ 6.8

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

Although to the outside world he seems like a perfectly normal insurance broker, Michael secretly keeps a 10-year-old boy locked in a room in his soundproof basement....

#2
O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization

O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization

1985★ 6.8

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

The world has been ravaged by nuclear war. The planet is frozen and radiation kills anyone or anything that ventures outside of 'The Dome'. Soft is a shepherd for the last remnants...

#3
Hugo

Hugo

2011★ 7.2

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

Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his mo...

#4
Shutter Island

Shutter Island

2010★ 8.2

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

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by tro...

#5
Titanic

Titanic

1997★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Melting Away 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...

#6
Back to the Future

Back to the Future

1985★ 8.3

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

Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty mu...