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10 Best Movies Like The Gift

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

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#1
Where the Wild Things Are

Where the Wild Things Are

2009★ 6.5

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

Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts—Ira, Carol, Douglas, the Bull, Judith and Alexander—crown him as their king, play ru...

#2
The Smile Man

The Smile Man

2013★ 7.4

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

A gentleman deals with the consequences of a car accident, which has left him with a spinal injury that means he has a permanent smile on his face....

#3
Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

2023★ 8.0

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

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II....

#4
Titanic

Titanic

1997★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Gift for fans of Romance & 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...

#5
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

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

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....

#6
PK

PK

2014★ 7.7

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

A stranger in the city asks questions no one has asked before. Known only by his initials, the man's innocent questions and childlike curiosity take him on a journey of love, laugh...