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10 Best Movies Like Margaret

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

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#1
Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Never Rarely Sometimes Always

2020★ 7.1

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

A pair of teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania travel to New York City to seek out medical help after an unintended pregnancy....

#2
A Thousand and One

A Thousand and One

2023★ 6.6

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

Struggling but unapologetically living on her own terms, Inez is moving from shelter to shelter in mid-1990s New York City. With her 6-year-old son Terry in foster care and unable ...

#3
Cop Land

Cop Land

1997★ 6.8

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

Freddy Heflin is the sheriff of a place everyone calls “Cop Land” — a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big city police officers he’s long admired. Yet something u...

#4
Destroyer

Destroyer

2018★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Margaret for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

When Erin Bell was a young cop, she was given an undercover assignment that ended badly and destroyed her life. Years later, she must face her demons in order to make peace with he...

#5
Striking Distance

Striking Distance

1993★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Margaret for fans of Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Coming from a police family, Tom Hardy ends up fighting his uncle after the murder of his father. Tom believes the killer is another cop, and goes on the record with his allegation...

#6
In the Shadow of the Moon

In the Shadow of the Moon

2019★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Margaret for fans of Sci-Fi. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

In 1988, Philadelphia police officer Thomas "Locke" Lockhart, hungry to become a detective, begins tracking a serial killer whose crimes defy scientific explanation. When the kille...

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