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10 Best Movies Like The Great Expectation

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

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#1
Icefall

Icefall

2025★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Great Expectation for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A young Indigenous game warden arrests an infamous poacher only to discover that the poacher knows the location of a plane carrying millions of dollars that has crashed in a frozen...

#2
Framed

Framed

1947★ 6.4

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

Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend...

#3
Split

Split

2016★ 5.9

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

The story of a young woman who takes an epic journey to claim her own darkness and sexuality so she can stop putting it into the hands of her abusive lover. When Inanna, a young a...

#4
Return

Return

2011★ 6.4

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

Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes....

#5
Mean Streets

Mean Streets

1973★ 7.1

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

A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob....

#6
Hunting Grounds

Hunting Grounds

2025★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Great Expectation for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Desperate to find refuge for her children, Chloe Marvino runs away from her Mafia tied husband, and finds shelter in a cabin with a recluse drifter named Jake. But as her husband's...

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