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10 Best Movies Like Room for Rent

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

#1
Arthur Newman

Arthur Newman

2012★ 5.6

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

A story of a man who fakes his own death and assumes a new identity in order to escape his life, who then moves in with a woman who is also trying to leave her past behind....

#2
The Second Civil War

The Second Civil War

1997★ 6.0

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

When a planeload of Pakistani orphans are shipped to his state for permanent relocation, the governor of Idaho defies the president and closes the state's border. News Net Televisi...

#3
Brokeback Mountain

Brokeback Mountain

2005★ 7.8

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

In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families o...

#4
Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

2023★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Room for Rent 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....

#5
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Room for Rent for fans of Crime. 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....

#6
Inside Out

Inside Out

2015★ 7.9

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

When 11-year-old Riley moves to a new city, her Emotions team up to help her through the transition. Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness work together, but when Joy and Sadness g...