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10 Best Movies Like Nickel and Dime

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

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#1
The First Day of the Rest of Your Life

The First Day of the Rest of Your Life

2008★ 7.5

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

A sprawling drama centered on five key days in a family's life....

#2
If I Were a Rich Man

If I Were a Rich Man

2002★ 5.7

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

Between Alice, a hospital nurse and Aldo, a shampoo sales representative, things have turned sour of late. Alice blames her husband for lacking ambition and contemplates divorce.On...

#3
Fragile(s)

Fragile(s)

2007★ 5.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Nickel and Dime for fans of Drama & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Six characters cross paths in Paris and Lisbon....

#4
Catch Me If You Can

Catch Me If You Can

2002★ 8.0

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

A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI...

#5
Ex Machina

Ex Machina

2015★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Nickel and Dime 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
Django Unchained

Django Unchained

2012★ 8.2

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

With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner....