Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Mar 13, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Islands

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

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#1
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey

2025★ 6.3

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

Sarah and David are single strangers who meet at a mutual friend’s wedding and soon, through a surprising twist of fate, find themselves on a funny, fantastical, sweeping adventure...

#2
Sundays

Sundays

2025★ 7.2

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

When Ainara announces that she wants to become a nun, chaos arises in her family....

#3
Here

Here

2024★ 6.5

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

An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between cou...

#4
Happiness for Beginners

Happiness for Beginners

2023★ 6.1

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

At a crossroads after her divorce, a schoolteacher ventures toward a fresh start in life — and love — when she signs up for a grueling group hiking trip....

#5
Which Brings Me to You

Which Brings Me to You

2023★ 6.1

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

Two romantic burnouts, Jane and Will, are immediately drawn to each other at a mutual friend’s wedding. After a disastrous hookup in the coatroom, the two spend the next 24 hours t...

#6
A California Christmas: City Lights

A California Christmas: City Lights

2021★ 6.6

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

Follows Callie and Joseph one year after they fell in love, now running a dairy farm and winery, but their romance is threatened when business and family obligations call Joseph ba...