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10 Best Movies Like Contemporaries

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

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#1
Hungry Hearts

Hungry Hearts

2015★ 6.6

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

The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance....

#2
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Contemporaries 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....

#3
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Contemporaries 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
Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything

Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything

2023★ 5.8

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

Set in a warm summer in 1990 in former East Germany, it follows a young woman who begins a relationship with a charismatic farmer who is twice her age....

#5
The Nest

The Nest

2020★ 6.1

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

Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of the...

#6
The House on Carroll Street

The House on Carroll Street

1988★ 5.9

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

A reporter, fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. While working she overhears a no...

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