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10 Best Movies Like The Great Pretenders

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

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#1
The Wandering Earth

The Wandering Earth

2019★ 6.7

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

When the Sun begins to expand in such a way that it will inevitably engulf and destroy the Earth in a hundred years, united mankind finds a way to avoid extinction by propelling th...

#2
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Great Pretenders for fans of Crime. 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....

#3
The Seed of the Sacred Fig

The Seed of the Sacred Fig

2024★ 7.5

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

Investigating judge Iman grapples with paranoia amid political unrest in Tehran. When his gun vanishes, he suspects his wife and daughters, imposing draconian measures that strain ...

#4
Rocco and His Brothers

Rocco and His Brothers

1960★ 8.0

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

When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results....

#5
Love and Death

Love and Death

1975★ 7.5

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

In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon....

#6
Children of Heaven

Children of Heaven

1997★ 7.9

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

Zohre's shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zohre until they come up with an idea: they will share one pair of shoes. School awai...