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10 Best Movies Like Someone's Trying to Get in

If you loved Someone's Trying to Get in, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Souleymane's Story

Souleymane's Story

2024★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Someone's Trying to Get in for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

As he pedals through the streets of Paris to deliver meals, Souleymane recounts his story. In two days, he has to go through his asylum application interview, the key to obtaining ...

#2
A Sister

A Sister

2018★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Someone's Trying to Get in for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A night. A car. Alie is in danger. To get by she must make the most important phone call of her life....

#3
The Insult

The Insult

2017★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Someone's Trying to Get in for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After an emotional exchange between a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee escalates, the men end up in a court case that gets national attention....

#4
Stutterer

Stutterer

2015★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Someone's Trying to Get in for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A lonely typographer with a cruel speech impediment but an eloquent inner voice must face his greatest fear....

#5
The Public Woman

The Public Woman

1984★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Someone's Trying to Get in for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An inexperienced young actress is invited to play a role in a film based on Dostoyevsky's 'The Possessed'. The film director, a Czech immigrant in Paris, takes over her life, and i...

#6
Cardboard Boxer

Cardboard Boxer

2016★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Someone's Trying to Get in for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl....

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