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10 Best Movies Like Expectations

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

#1
Twin Peaks

Twin Peaks

1989★ 8.5

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

An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks. (This standalone version of the series pilot was produced for...

#2
Taxidermia

Taxidermia

2006★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Expectations for fans of Drama. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Set over three generations and beginning with a sexually frustrated orderly during WWII who relieves his tensions in the most outlandish, gross ways. The result of his liaison is a...

#3
Love at First Fight

Love at First Fight

2014★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Expectations for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Arnaud, facing an uncertain future and a dearth of choices in a small French coastal town, meets and falls for the apocalyptic-minded Madeleine, who joins an army boot camp to lear...

#4
The Crying Game

The Crying Game

1992★ 6.8

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

Irish Republican Army member Fergus forms an unexpected bond with Jody, a kidnapped British soldier in his custody, despite the warnings of fellow IRA members Jude and Maguire. Jod...

#5
Mirror

Mirror

1975★ 7.9

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

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life....

#6
The Outsiders

The Outsiders

1983★ 7.2

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

In 1960s Tulsa, class divisions ignite a violent rivalry between the working-class Greasers and the privileged Socs. When a deadly encounter forces two Greasers, Ponyboy and Johnny...