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10 Best Movies Like Purple City

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

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#1
Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience

Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience

2016★ 6.9

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

A celebration of the universe, displaying the whole of time, from its start to its final collapse. This film examines all that occurred to prepare the world that stands before us n...

#2
The Art of Getting By

The Art of Getting By

2011★ 6.6

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

George, a lonely and fatalistic teen who's made it all the way to his senior year without ever having done a real day of work, is befriended by Sally, a popular but complicated gir...

#3
Totally F***ed Up

Totally F***ed Up

1994★ 6.7

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

Gay, alienated Los Angeles teens have a hard time as their parents kick them out of their homes, they don’t have money, their lovers cheat, and they are harassed by gay-bashers....

#4
Welcome to Chechnya

Welcome to Chechnya

2020★ 6.8

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

This searing investigative work shadows a group of activists risking unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ program raging in the repressive and closed Russian repub...

#5
Benjamin

Benjamin

2019★ 6.1

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

Benjamin, a rising star filmmaker, is on the brink of premiering his difficult second film No Self at the London Film Festival when Billie, his hard drinking publicist, introduces ...

#6
Destino

Destino

2003★ 7.2

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

Short film to a song of love lost and rediscovered, a woman sees and undergoes surreal transformations. Her lover's face melts off, she dons a dress from the shadow of a bell and b...

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