Movies like The Forger (2011)
The best movies like The Forger (2011) are 2:37 (2006), Hearts in Atlantis (2001) and In the Dark (2013). If The Forger hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedHearts in Atlantis (2001)6.8/10 from 657 votes
- NewestFallen Hearts (2019)Released 2019
2:37 (2006)
A contemporary, ensemble drama that tells the complex tale of six high school students whose lives are interwoven with situations that so many of today's youth are faced with. The story takes place during a normal school day. At precisely 2:37, a tragedy will occur affecting the lives of a group of students and their teachers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHearts in Atlantis (2001)
A widowed mother and her son change when a mysterious stranger enters their lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIn the Dark (2013)
Aspiring artist Ali must rebuild her life after a tragic accident kills her husband and their young child, and leaves her blind. Life in the dark proves to be a daunting task, so, at her doctor's suggestion, she hires a caretaker named Jeff to help her adjust with the transition. Jeff's aid proves to be indispensable, she even meets and quickly befriends her new neighbor, Linda. Before long, she is embroiled in a fight for her life from an obsessive predator. Will she learn to protect herself using her only remaining senses in time to save her life?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
To Save a Life (2009)
Jake Taylor has everything. He has a beautiful girl, he's the champion in basketball and beer pong, and everyone loves him. Then, an old childhood friend of his commits suicide. Jake wonders what he could've done to save his friend's life. A youth minister tells him that Jake needs God. So Jake becomes a Christian. However, things begin to spin out of control. Jake is going to realize just what it means to be a Christian and how, to save a life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Color of Rain (2014)
After cancer claims Matt Kell's life on Christmas Day 2005, his widow, Gina and two young boys are left to cope with the pain of his loss while their close church community gathers around them for support.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLullaby (2014)
Estranged from his family, Jonathan (Hedlund) discovers his father has decided to take himself off life support in forty-eight hours’ time. During this intensely condensed period, a lifetime of drama plays out. Robert (Jenkins) fights a zero sum game to reclaim all that his illness stole from his family. A debate rages on patients’ rights and what it truly means to be free. Jonathan reconciles with his father, reconnects with his mother (Archer), sister (Brown-Findlay), and his love (Adams) and reclaims his voice through two unlikely catalysts – a young, wise-beyond-her-years patient (Barden) and a no-nonsense nurse (Hudson). Through this intensely life affirming prism, an unexpected and powerful journey of love, laughter, and forgiveness unfolds.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTanner Hall (2011)
A manipulative childhood acquaintance worms her way into a teenager's circle of friends at an all-girls boarding school.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisChange in the Air (2018)
A peaceful community is forever changed when a mysterious young woman moves in. As the quirky locals embrace her, their lives soon improve. But, they can't help notice that their strange new neighbor has a secret.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Pictures of Hollis Woods (2007)
After running away from her last foster placement with the Regan family, twelve year old Hollis Woods is placed with a new foster mother, the loving, retired art teacher, Josie Cahill.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Safe Harbor (2009)
Doug and Robbie are about to set sail on a long trip when they unexpectedly find themselves foster parenting a group of troubled teenage boys. The experience changes their lives for the better, and they decide to stay in town and run the foster home for boys permanently.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Old Curiosity Shop (2007)
A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Love, Once and Always (2018)
When Lucy’s childhood sweetheart plans to tear down the Gilded Age estate and replace it with a golf course, Lucy fights to preserve the historic mansion at all costs. As Lucy and Duncan set out to find a compromise, they learn that embracing the past may be the key to protecting the future.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisYesterday's Children (2000)
After having strange dreams, Jenny Cole discovers that in her last incarnation she was Mary Sutton, an Irishwoman who died in the 1930s. Suspicious, Jenny goes to Ireland to investigate her past life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Ever After (2015)
Ava and Thomas live--to outside eyes--the good life, complete with a child and a lovely home in Los Angeles, but something is lost. Ava has placed her acting career on hold to play the mother and good wife, while Thomas' job as a fashion photographer puts him in dangerously tempting situations. When trauma strikes, they must confront their innermost vulnerabilities to recover their disintegrating marriage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Here on Earth (2000)
Three lives of three young people intersect over the course of one summer. A rich student and a young working-class man accidentally destroy a diner when their impromptu road race takes a disastrous turn. Ordered by a judge to spend the summer repairing the building, they find themselves becoming rivals for the affections of the owner's daughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Gift of Miracles (2015)
A pragmatic PhD candidate must let go of her logic when she finds a list of items to give away written by the late mother she never knew. With the encouragement of her enthusiastic new mentor, she attempts to return everything on the list and begins to encounter unexplainable coincidences that lead her to understand the world’s smallest marvels have the greatest meaning.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisHide Away (2011)
A successful businessman attempting to resurrect his life buys and boards a dilapidated sailboat.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
According to Greta (2009)
Dumped on her grandparents for the summer by her indifferent mother, acerbic and self-destructive teenager Greta disrupts the elderly couple's staid life on the Jersey Shore. Eventually, a romance helps Greta face down her demons.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHeaven's Door (2012)
12-year-old Riley Ann Taylor recently lost her grandfather, who died right in front of her while teaching her how to play soccer. She soon finds a portal leading to the place people talk about but never see: Heaven. She gains a miraculous healing ability and uses it to help those who are sick but soon gains the diseases these people and animals had. You know what they say, every good thing comes with a price.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Eye of the Dolphin (2007)
Alyssa is a troubled 14-year old, suspended from school a year after her mother has drowned. Her grandmother Lucy, at wit's end, decides to take Alyssa to her father, James, whom Alyssa thought was dead for years. He studies dolphin communication at Smith's Point, on the Grand Bahama Island. James has not known of Alyssa's existence and is clueless about parenthood. The women arrive at the same time that James may lose his research operation to a tourist attraction. Father, daughter, dolphins, and town are on a collision course. Alyssa and James get encouragement from James's girlfriend and her father. It's the dolphins who can teach, and Alyssa who discovers how to listen.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
A Ring of Endless Light (2002)
When 15-year-old Vicky Austin, her sister Suzy and little brother Rob visit their grandfather on Seven Bay Island, Vicky faces several unexpected challenges. Her beloved grandfather, retired Reverend Eaton, seems to be seriously ill, but tries to pretend that nothing is wrong. Vicky met the rich but emotionally troubled Zachary Gray the previous summer, and he reappears to renew the acquaintance. Another boy, 17-year-old Adam Eddington, recruits Vicky to help him with a research project, working with a dolphin called Basil. Vicky discovers she can communicate telepathically with the dolphin and his mate - and possibly with Adam as well
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisVeronika Decides to Die (2009)
After a frantic suicide attempt, Veronika awakens inside a mysterious mental asylum. Under the supervision of an unorthodox psychiatrist who specializes in controversial treatment, Veronika learns that she has only weeks to live.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Christmas Candle (2013)
Deep in the heart of the English countryside lies the enchanting village of Gladbury. Legend has it every 25 years an angel visits the village candlemaker and touches a single candle. Whoever lights this candle receives a miracle on Christmas Eve. But in 1890, at the dawn of the electric age, this centuries old legend may come to an end.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisToo Young to Marry (2007)
Connecticut high school students Max Doyle and Jessica Carpenter fall in love and feel making love isn't enough, so they brave everyone's objections and get married.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Griffin & Phoenix (2006)
A terminally ill man falls in love with a woman who has a secret that threatens their time spent together.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFallen Hearts (2019)
Heaven is now happily married and ready to settle back in her hometown. But after a trip to Farthinggale Manor, Heaven is persuaded to stay. Lured by her grandfather to live amidst the wealthy and privileged Heaven seems to have it all until the ghosts of her past rise up once more, threatening her precious new life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Last Keepers (2013)
This romantic fantasy movie is about two people who are the last survivors of an ancient line of goddess worshipers, who sell art at a shop. When their teenage daughter Rhea falls in love with a poetically inclined boy , she begins to develop magical powers of her own throwing everything into chaos.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Grifters (1990)
A small-time conman has his loyalties torn between his estranged mother and his new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Forger (2014)
A former child art prodigy and second generation petty thief arranges to buy his way out of prison to spend time with his ailing son, only to be forced to alter his plans and commit one more job for the man who financed his release.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Perfect Murder (1998)
Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful player in the New York financial world, he considers her to be his most treasured acquisition. But she needs more than simply the role of dazzling accessory.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Forger?
The closest matches to The Forger are 2:37 (2006), Hearts in Atlantis (2001) and In the Dark (2013). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Forger?
People who watched The Forger most often go on to 2:37 (2006), Hearts in Atlantis (2001) and In the Dark (2013).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Forger?
Hearts in Atlantis (2001), rated 6.8/10 by 657 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Forger?
Fallen Hearts (2019) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Forger?
Yes: 2:37 (2006), Hearts in Atlantis (2001) and In the Dark (2013).
How are movies similar to The Forger chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Forger, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.