Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 09, 2026

10 Best Movies Like The City

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

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#1
The Reports on Sarah and Saleem

The Reports on Sarah and Saleem

2018★ 6.9

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

The affair of a married Palestinian man and a married Israeli woman in Jerusalem takes a dangerous political dimension when they are spotted in the wrong place at the wrong time, l...

#2
I Still Hide to Smoke

I Still Hide to Smoke

2017★ 6.9

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

Α tragi-comedy about 9 women of different ages and various backgrounds that gather in an Algerian hammam to talk about their lives....

#3
El Chicano

El Chicano

2019★ 6.6

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

A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law....

#4
The Man Who Sold His Skin

The Man Who Sold His Skin

2021★ 6.6

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

To be able to travel to Europe and find the love of his life, Sam Ali, a Syrian refugee, accepts to have his back tattooed by one of the most sulfurous contemporary artist; becomin...

#5
What Maisie Knew

What Maisie Knew

2013★ 7.1

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

In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle....

#6
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

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