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10 Best Movies Like Oscar

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

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#1
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

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

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

#2
Life Is Beautiful

Life Is Beautiful

1997★ 8.4

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

A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire famil...

#3
Young Man with a Horn

Young Man with a Horn

1950★ 6.4

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

Taken in by the musical world as a young orphan, Rick Martin grows up with a desire to play pure jazz instead of the commercial gigs he lands, whilst also coping with the problems ...

#4
The Great Escape

The Great Escape

1963★ 7.9

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

The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to si...

#5
The Sound of Music

The Sound of Music

1965★ 7.7

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

In the years before World War II, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children and brings a new lov...

#6
Running on Empty

Running on Empty

1988★ 7.4

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

The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's ...

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