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10 Best Movies Like Within Our Gates

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

#1
Orphans of the Storm

Orphans of the Storm

1921★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Within Our Gates for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their parents' lives causes Louise's blindness, t...

#2
Shoulder Arms

Shoulder Arms

1918★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Within Our Gates for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

An American doughboy, stationed in France during the Great War, goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines and becomes a hero....

#3
Way Down East

Way Down East

1920★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Within Our Gates for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock....

#4
Life of an American Fireman

Life of an American Fireman

1903★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Within Our Gates for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of firemen responding to a house fire. They leave the station with their horse drawn pumper, arrive o...

#5
Timecode

Timecode

2016★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Within Our Gates for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Timecode is a 2016 Spanish live-action short film directed by Juanjo Giménez. Luna and Diego are the parking lot security guards. Diego does the night shift, and Luna works by day....

#6
I Still Hide to Smoke

I Still Hide to Smoke

2017★ 6.9

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

Α tragi-comedy about 9 women of different ages and various backgrounds that gather in an Algerian hammam to talk about their lives....