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10 Best Movies Like Palo Alto

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

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#1
Adult World

Adult World

2014★ 6.0

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

Amy, a naive college graduate who believes she's destined to be a great poet, begrudgingly accepts a job at a sex shop while she pursues a mentorship with reclusive writer Rat Bill...

#2
Siberia, Monamour

Siberia, Monamour

2011★ 6.8

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

Siberia. Late autumn. In taiga, in the deserted village there lives an old man Ivan & his seven-year-old grandson Leshia. A pack of feral dogs devours everything alive in the n...

#3
Wild Life

Wild Life

2014★ 6.4

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

The new film by French director Cédric Kahn focusses on Philippe Fournier, a man who lives with his 2 sons, having decided not to give them back to their mother after she won custo...

#4
Violette Nozière

Violette Nozière

1978★ 6.7

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

Paris, 1933. The daughter of a respectable lower middle class couple, Violette Nozière, leads a disreputable double life. Far from being the innocent 18-year-old her parents mistak...

#5
Hello I Must Be Going

Hello I Must Be Going

2012★ 5.9

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

An affair with a 19-year old actor helps reinvigorate life for thirty-something Amy after she moves home to her parents’ house following her divorce....

#6
Paper Heart

Paper Heart

2009★ 5.7

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

Paper Heart follows Nick and Charlyne on a cross-country journey to document what exactly "love" is. Interviewing ministers, happily married couples, chemists, romance novelists, d...