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10 Best Movies Like The Emigrant

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

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#1
Ride Away

Ride Away

2025★ 7.1

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

From the Atlantic to the Black Sea, Mathias and Philippe, two old friends, embark on a bicycle journey that Mathias’s son made before his tragic death. The two men ride through the...

#2
SubUrbia

SubUrbia

1997★ 6.2

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

A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults....

#3
Arab Blues

Arab Blues

2020★ 6.1

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

Selma, a psychoanalyst, deals with a cast of colorful new patients after returning home to Tunisia to open a practice....

#4
Juste une illusion

Juste une illusion

2026★ 7.3

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

1985. Vincent, almost 13, lives in the suburbs of Paris in a middle-class family, between a distant older brother and parents in constant conflict. Although he is no longer a child...

#5
Somewhere in Queens

Somewhere in Queens

2023★ 6.2

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

Leo and Angela Russo live a simple life in Queens, surrounded by their overbearing Italian-American family. When their son finds success on his high school basketball team, Leo tea...

#6
Sweetheart

Sweetheart

2019★ 6.5

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

A working woman, mother a three children, realizes that, when her youngest one is about to go to Canada to continue her education, she will end up out of her most precious goal, be...

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