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10 Best Movies Like Orphans

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

#1
My Beautiful Laundrette

My Beautiful Laundrette

1985★ 6.7

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

A young Pakistani Briton manages a rundown laundrette with his lover while dealing with tension in his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads....

#2
Arabian Adventure

Arabian Adventure

1979★ 5.8

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

An evil caliph (Christopher Lee) offers his daughter’s hand in marriage to a prince if he can complete a perilous quest for a magical rose. Helped by a young boy and a magic carpet...

#3
Tipline Mysteries: Dial 1 for Murder

Tipline Mysteries: Dial 1 for Murder

2024★ 7.4

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

Maddie Moore is a concierge at a hotel in Detroit, Michigan who moonlights at Detriot Free Press in their tipline department. Most nights, calls run anywhere from alien sightings t...

#4
Two Drifters

Two Drifters

2005★ 6.2

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

After breaking up with her boyfriend, a woman named Odete descends into madness and claims to be pregnant with the child of her neighbour Pedro, who died in a car crash and is mour...

#5
Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

2023★ 8.0

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

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II....

#6
Mulan

Mulan

2020★ 6.8

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

When the Emperor of China issues a decree that one man per family must serve in the Imperial Chinese Army to defend the country from Huns, Hua Mulan, the eldest daughter of an hono...