Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 11, 2026

10 Best Movies Like The Orphans

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

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#1
My Neighbor Adolf

My Neighbor Adolf

2022★ 6.5

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

South America, 1960. A lonely and grumpy Holocaust survivor convinces himself that his new neighbor is none other than Adolf Hitler. Not being taken seriously, he starts an indepen...

#2
The Coach

The Coach

2018★ 6.6

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

Contemporary Russia. After he flubs a penalty kick, a humiliated national soccer player quits the game. He flees to a small town, where he decides to coach their local team....

#3
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#4
My Friend Ivan Lapshin

My Friend Ivan Lapshin

1985★ 6.7

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

Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well....

#5
Private Peaceful

Private Peaceful

2012★ 6.6

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

Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feudal family life, the war, and t...

#6
The Beautiful Country

The Beautiful Country

2004★ 5.9

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

After reuniting with his mother in Ho Chi Minh City, a family tragedy causes Binh to flee from Viet Nam to America. Landing in New York, Binh begins a road trip to Texas, where his...

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