10 Best Movies Like Grit
If you loved Grit, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Heavy
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Grit for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Victor is a cook who works in a greasy roadside restaurant owned by his mother, Dolly. It's just the two of them, a waitress named Delores, and a heavy drinking regular, Leo. But t...

Frankie and Johnny
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Grit for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
When Johnny is released from prison following a forgery charge, he quickly lands a job as a short-order cook at a New York diner. Following a brief fling with waitress Cora, he dev...

White Palace
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Grit for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Max Baron is a Jewish advertising executive in his 20s who's still getting over the death of his wife. Nora Baker is a 40-something diner waitress who enjoys the wilder side of lif...

Bella
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Grit for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
An international soccer star is on his way to sign a multimillion dollar contract when something happens that brings his career to an abrupt end. A beautiful waitress, struggling t...

The Kindness of Strangers
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Grit for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who get...

French Girl
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Grit for fans of Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Sweet Gordon, an affable English teacher in Brooklyn, has beaten the odds; a French Girl has fallen in love with him and he’s fallen even harder back. But their future is thrown in...