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10 Best Movies Like A Flame at the Pier

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

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#1
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Flame at the Pier 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...

#2
Home Run

Home Run

2013★ 6.2

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

A pro ball player with a substance abuse problem is forced into rehab in his hometown, finding new hope when he gets honest about his checkered past, and takes on coaching duties f...

#3
Suburbia

Suburbia

1984★ 6.7

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

When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like...

#4
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

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

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

#5
Intentions of Murder

Intentions of Murder

1964★ 7.0

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

The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect of a better life....

#6
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

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

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of gettin...

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