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10 Best Movies Like Permanent Residence

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

#1
Shame

Shame

2011★ 6.9

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

Brandon, a thirty-something man living in New York, eludes intimacy with women but feeds his deepest desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his younger sister temporarily...

#2
I Go to School Not by Bus

I Go to School Not by Bus

2016★ 7.3

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

A coming out of age story of 2 secondary school students who study in a Christian school. Ming is in closet and Hei is openly gay....

#3
Alien: Romulus

Alien: Romulus

2024★ 7.2

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

While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe....

#4
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

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

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....

#5
The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption

1994★ 8.7

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

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting ski...

#6
The Godfather

The Godfather

1972★ 8.7

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

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attemp...