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10 Best Movies Like 1998

If you loved 1998, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Encounter

Encounter

2021★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 1998 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A decorated Marine goes on a rescue mission to save his two young sons from an unhuman threat. As their journey takes them in increasingly dangerous directions, the boys will need ...

#2
Jonathan

Jonathan

2018★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 1998 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Jonathan is a young man with a strange condition that only his brother understands. But when he begins to yearn for a different life, their unique bond becomes increasingly tested...

#3
Proximity

Proximity

2020★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 1998 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A young NASA JPL scientist is abducted by extraterrestrials but when no one believes his story he becomes obsessed with finding proof which leads him on a journey of discovery....

#4
Light of My Life

Light of My Life

2019★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 1998 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Parent and child journey through the outskirts of society a decade after a pandemic has wiped out half the world's population. As a father struggles to protect his child, their bon...

#5
Alien Nation

Alien Nation

1988★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 1998 for fans of Sci-Fi. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A few years from now, Earth will have the first contact with an alien civilization. These aliens, known as Newcomers, slowly begin to be integrated into human society after years o...

#6
Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol

Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol

2010★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 1998 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Amy Pond and Rory Williams are trapped on a crashing space liner, and the only way the Eleventh Doctor can rescue them is to save the soul of a lonely old miser. But is Kazran Sard...

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