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10 Best Movies Like Northeast

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

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#1
Cape Fear

Cape Fear

1991‱★ 7.3

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

Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public d...

#2
Shattered Glass

Shattered Glass

2003‱★ 7.0

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

The true story of fraudulent Washington, D.C. journalist Stephen Glass, who rose to meteoric heights as a young writer in his 20s, becoming a staff writer at The New Republic for t...

#3
Shrill Cries of Summer

Shrill Cries of Summer

2008‱★ 5.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Northeast for fans of Drama. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Early summer, Keiichi had just moved to a remote mountain village. As he becomes close friends with a group of girls, he was enjoying his life in the village. However when he start...

#4
Back to the Future

Back to the Future

1985‱★ 8.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Northeast 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...

#5
Shutter Island

Shutter Island

2010‱★ 8.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Northeast 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...

#6
The Godfather

The Godfather

1972‱★ 8.7

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

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attemp...