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10 Best Movies Like My Salinger Year

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

#1
Rain

Rain

1932★ 6.6

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

Due to a possible cholera epidemic onboard, passengers on a ship are forced to disembark at Pago Pago, a small village on a Pacific island where it incessantly rains. Among the str...

#2
What Breaks the Ice

What Breaks the Ice

2020★ 5.1

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

A coming of age thriller about two 15-year-old girls, Sammy and Emily, who hark from different worlds but strike up a quick and deep friendship. But what should be the best summer ...

#3
Amnesia

Amnesia

2015★ 5.4

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

A young composer moves from Berlin to the island of Ibiza and begins a friendship with an elderly woman whose painful past has caused her to reject everything to do with Germany, i...

#4
Shackleton

Shackleton

★ 0.0

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

Ernest Shackleton led three British expeditions to the Antarctic, but the polar explorer is best remembered for how he handled adversity. His ship Endurance was crushed by ice floe...

#5
To Whom It May Concern

To Whom It May Concern

2015★ 5.6

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

Anna is 30, a bartender, beautiful, sexy, and emotionally dysfunctional. Tired of life and planning to commit suicide, she begins making her own funeral arrangements. Then Anna mee...

#6
Revolta dos Malês

Revolta dos Malês

2023★ 10.0

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

Salvador, Bahia, January 1835. After more than a decade of hard work, Guilhermina, 27, a slave of Muslim origin, finally gets the resources to buy her manumission, as well as that ...