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10 Best Movies Like The Last Year

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

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#1
Shelter

Shelter

2007★ 7.8

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

Forced to give up his dreams of art school, Zach works dead-end jobs to support his sister and her son. Questioning his life, he paints, surfs and hangs out with his best friend, G...

#2
Johns

Johns

1996★ 5.2

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

It's the day before Christmas, the day before John's 21st birthday. He's a prostitute on Santa Monica Blvd in L.A., and he wants to spend that night and the next day at the posh Pa...

#3
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Last Year 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....

#4
Titanic

Titanic

1997★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Last Year for fans of Drama & Romance. 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
Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

2023★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Last Year 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....

#6
American Beauty

American Beauty

1999★ 8.0

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

Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend....