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10 Best Movies Like The Pelican

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

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#1
Adopt a Highway

Adopt a Highway

2019★ 6.7

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

Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a 3rd strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn’t...

#2
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020★ 6.2

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

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....

#3
Secret Name

Secret Name

2021★ 6.0

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

Nelie escaped a miserable existence by becoming a frontline nurse in 1914. One day, she takes the identity of Rose, a young woman from a good family, who dies in front of her. She ...

#4
In the Beginning

In the Beginning

2009★ 6.6

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

France, present day. A professional conman passes himself off as the boss of a construction site building a highway extension. He cons the whole region, hires dozens of workers and...

#5
The Search

The Search

2014★ 6.8

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

A woman who works for a non-governmental organization (NGO) forms a special relationship with a young boy in war-torn Chechnya....

#6
Salomé

Salomé

2013★ 6.2

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

After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his k...

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