Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 09, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Anything Once

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

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#1
True Colors

True Colors

1991★ 6.2

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

Two law school friends find themselves at odds when one becomes a Justice Department lawyer and the other goes into politics....

#2
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Anything Once 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...

#3
The Safety of Objects

The Safety of Objects

2002★ 6.5

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

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, an...

#4
El Chicano

El Chicano

2019★ 6.6

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

A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law....

#5
Iron Jawed Angels

Iron Jawed Angels

2004★ 6.8

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

Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote....

#6
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020★ 6.2

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

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....

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