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10 Best Movies Like The Search

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

#1
White Heat

White Heat

1949★ 7.7

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

A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy t...

#2
To Have and Have Not

To Have and Have Not

1945★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Search for fans of War. It captures a similar heartwarming atmosphere.

A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII....

#3
Hector and the Search for Happiness

Hector and the Search for Happiness

2014★ 6.7

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

Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted life, and y...

#4
War and Peace

War and Peace

1967★ 7.5

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

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army....

#5
The Verdict

The Verdict

1982★ 7.4

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

Frank Galvin is a down-on-his-luck lawyer and reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing, when a former associate reminds him of his obligations in a medical malpractice suit by ser...

#6
Summertime

Summertime

1955★ 6.8

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

Middle-aged Ohio secretary Jane Hudson has never found love and has nearly resigned herself to spending the rest of her life alone. But before she does, she uses her savings to fin...