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10 Best Movies Like The Defiant Ones

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

#1
Definitely, Maybe

Definitely, Maybe

2008★ 6.9

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

When Will decides to tell his daughter the story of how he met her mother, he discovers that a second look at the past might also give him a second chance at the future....

#2
Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

2023★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Defiant Ones 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....

#3
Shutter Island

Shutter Island

2010★ 8.2

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

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by tro...

#4
Inside Out

Inside Out

2015★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Defiant Ones for fans of Drama. 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...

#5
Back to the Future

Back to the Future

1985★ 8.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Defiant Ones for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty mu...

#6
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Defiant Ones for fans of Drama. 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....