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10 Best Movies Like Jacob

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

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#1
The Home

The Home

2025★ 6.7

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

A troubled man starts working at a retirement home and realizes its residents and caretakers harbor sinister secrets. As he investigates the building and its forbidden fourth floor...

#2
Lucky

Lucky

2017★ 7.3

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

Follows the journey of a 90-year-old atheist and the quirky characters that inhabit his off-the-map desert town. He finds himself at the precipice of life, thrust into a journey of...

#3
Puzzle

Puzzle

2018★ 6.5

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

After years of caring exclusively for the needs of her husband and children, Agnes, a devoted housewife living in a small town near New York, has found something she really enjoys ...

#4
Hellion

Hellion

2014★ 5.9

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

When motocross and heavy metal obsessed, 13-year-old Jacob's delinquent behavior forces CPS to place his little brother Wes with his aunt, Jacob and his emotionally absent father m...

#5
Inside I'm Dancing

Inside I'm Dancing

2004★ 7.4

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

Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the formidable Eileen. His life is transformed wh...

#6
Eleanor the Great

Eleanor the Great

2025★ 6.9

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

94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades....

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