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10 Best Movies Like Empty Nets

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

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#1
Fireworks Wednesday

Fireworks Wednesday

2006★ 7.4

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

Rouhi, a young bride-to-be, is hired as a maid for an affluent family in Tehran. Upon arriving, she is suddenly thrust into an explosive domestic conflict. The wife is convinced he...

#2
The Lady from Shanghai

The Lady from Shanghai

1947★ 7.4

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

A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife....

#3
Stillwater

Stillwater

2021★ 6.6

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

Bill Baker, an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma, travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter, Allison, who is in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit....

#4
TalhotBlond

TalhotBlond

2012★ 6.3

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

Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately lead...

#5
The River

The River

1984★ 6.4

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

Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer a...

#6
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

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

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site ...

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