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10 Best Movies Like The Zero Years

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

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#1
Big Fish

Big Fish

2003★ 7.8

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

Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, t...

#2
The Wretches Are Still Singing

The Wretches Are Still Singing

1979★ 7.2

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

Five friends (representatives of the Fifties generation) now in their forties, get together after many years of silence. One shows up from jail, where he has been entering and exit...

#3
Titanic

Titanic

1997★ 7.9

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

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and...

#4
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Zero Years 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....

#5
8 Mile

8 Mile

2002★ 7.1

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

For Jimmy Smith, Jr., life is a daily fight just to keep hope alive. Feeding his dreams in Detroit's vibrant music scene, Jimmy wages an extraordinary personal struggle to find his...

#6
The Breakfast Club

The Breakfast Club

1985★ 7.7

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

Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal. The disparate group includes rebel John, princess Claire, outcast...