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10 Best Movies Like Great Expectations

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

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#1
Great Expectations

Great Expectations

2012★ 6.4

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

Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and hi...

#2
A Room with a View

A Room with a View

1986★ 7.0

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

When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation....

#3
Breathe

Breathe

2017★ 7.4

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

Based on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralyzed....

#4
Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist

2005★ 6.7

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

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young ...

#5
Labor Day

Labor Day

2013★ 7.1

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

Two strangers are drawn together under incredible circumstances. What starts as an unforeseen encounter over a long holiday weekend soon becomes a second chance love story....

#6
Sweetness in the Belly

Sweetness in the Belly

2019★ 6.3

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

Orphaned in Africa as a child, Lilly escapes to England as a refugee, fleeing civil war in Ethiopia. Lost in this cold new world, Lilly embraces the immigrant community in London, ...

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