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10 Best Movies Like Ponette

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

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#1
Bridge to Terabithia

Bridge to Terabithia

2007★ 7.3

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

Jesse Aarons trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school. So he's very upset when newcomer Leslie Burke outruns him and everyone else. Despite this and other differen...

#2
Gemma Bovery

Gemma Bovery

2014★ 6.2

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

Martin, an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster passionate about Gustave Flaubert who settled into a Norman village as a baker, sees an English couple moving into a small farm nearby. N...

#3
Aparajito

Aparajito

1956★ 7.9

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

Apu and his family have moved away from the country to live in the bustling holy city of Benares. As he progresses from wide-eyed child to intellectually curious teenager, eventual...

#4
2046

2046

2004★ 7.2

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

Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love....

#5
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

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

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site ...

#6
Italian for Beginners

Italian for Beginners

2000★ 6.4

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

Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner's course in Italian as the platform to meet the romance of their lives. The film, which unspoo...