Movies like Atlantics (2019)
The best movies like Atlantics (2019) are Border (2018), The Five Devils (2022) and Happy as Lazzaro (2018). If Atlantics hooked you with its drama and romance, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedPortrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)8.1/10 from 3,100 votes
- NewestAll of Us Strangers (2023)Released 2023
- In FrenchThe Five Devils (2022)Also in French
Border (2018)
When a border guard with a sixth sense for identifying smugglers encounters the first person she cannot prove is guilty, she is forced to confront terrifying revelations about herself and humankind.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Five Devils (2022)
8-year-old Vicky has a mysterious gift: she can recreate any scent she comes across, even that of her beloved mother Joanne. When her estranged aunt Julia suddenly returns to town, the invocation of her fragrance plunges the young girl back in time to unravel a past replete with family secrets.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHappy as Lazzaro (2018)
Purehearted teen Lazzaro is content living as a sharecropper in rural Italy, but an unlikely friendship with the marquise’s son will change his world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Shape of Water (2017)
An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphibious man being held captive there and devises a plan to help him escape.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Ghost Story (2017)
Recently deceased, a white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to console his bereft wife, only to find that in his spectral state he has become unstuck in time, forced to watch passively as the life he knew and the woman he loves slowly slip away.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAll of Us Strangers (2023)
One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor, which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWhat Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (2021)
In the Georgian riverside town of Kutaisi, summertime romance and World Cup fever are in the air. After a pair of chance encounters, pharmacist Lisa and soccer player Giorgi find their plans for a date undone when they both awaken magically transformed with no way to recognize each other.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUndine (2020)
Undine is a historian and tour guide at the Berlin City Museum specializing in urban development, while Christoph is an industrial diver. Linked by a love of the water, the two form an intense bond, which can only do so much to help Undine overcome the considerable baggage of her former affair.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBurning Ghost (2019)
Juste wanders the streets of Paris looking for people only he can see. He collects their last memory before helping them into the afterlife. One day Agathe, a young woman, recognizes him. She belongs to his previous life. She is alive and he is a ghost. How will they manage to love each other and seize this second chance?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Coma (2022)
Amidst a period of unprecedented world events, an eighteen-year-old girl’s life is placed on hold. Isolated in her bedroom, she falls under the spell of the mysterious vlogger Patricia Coma. As time carries on, the lines between her dreams, fears, hopes, and reality begin to blur into one another.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & fantasy
Petite Maman (2021)
After the death of her beloved grandmother, eight-year-old Nelly meets a strangely familiar girl her own age in the woods. Instantly forming a connection with this mysterious new friend, Nelly embarks on a fantastical journey of discovery which helps her come to terms with this newfound loss.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Vourdalak (2023)
The Marquis d’Urfé finds refuge in the home of a strange family after becoming lost in a hostile forest while working as an emissary for the King of France.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMetamorphoses (2014)
A girl is approached by a strange boy outside her high school. He asks her to follow him to hear stories where gods fall in love with human beings.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & fantasy
Bird People (2014)
An overstressed American businessman and a French chambermaid make a connection at an airport hotel in Paris.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & fantasy
SnoozefestMovies like thisLet the Sunshine In (2017)
Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love, at last.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Third Wife (2019)
Though only 14 years old, May is selected to be the third wife of a wealthy landowner. Her new home seems idyllic, her husband favours her, and she quickly becomes pregnant with what she is certain will be the desired male progeny. But trouble is quietly brewing: she witnesses a forbidden tryst that will spark a chain reaction of misfortunes — and stir in May urges that until now had been dormant.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Souvenir (2019)
A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Tree of Life (2011)
The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Burial of Kojo (2018)
A man is trapped in a mine shaft by his vengeful brother while his daughter embarks on a magical journey to rescue him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & fantasy
The Lawyer (2020)
Marius is a highly successful lawyer based in Vilnius. He becomes obsessed with Ali, a handsome Syrian refugee he first encounters in an online chatroom run out of Belgrade. Marius is rich and enjoys a vibrant social and cultural life. Nevertheless, he feels that something is missing from it. The journey from Lithuania to Serbia is a relatively short one, but can the two navigate their way through the gulf that separates their very different lives? And how do they deal with the precarious obstacles of the physical borders that stand between them? Written and directed by Romas Zabarauskas, The Lawyer questions assumptions about what it means to be an immigrant and the possibilities offered by life in contemporary Europe.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
His House (2020)
After making a harrowing escape from war-torn South Sudan, a young refugee couple struggle to adjust to their new life in a small English town that has an unspeakable evil lurking beneath the surface.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Chiara (2021)
The Guerrasio family and friends gather to celebrate Claudio and Carmela’s oldest daughter’s 18th birthday. There is a healthy rivalry between the birthday girl and her 15-year-old sister Chiara as they compete on the dancefloor. It is a happy occasion, and the close-knit family are on top form. However, everything changes the next day when the father disappears. Chiara, unconvinced by the cover story, starts to investigate. As she gets closer to the truth, she is forced to decide what kind of future she wants for herself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJumbo (2020)
Jeanne, a shy young woman, works as a night guard at an amusement park and has a close relationship with her mother. While no man can compete with this opposed duo, Jeanne begins to develop strange romantic feelings for Jumbo, the latest attraction at the theme park...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisLingui, the Sacred Bonds (2021)
On the outskirts of the capital of Chad, determined single mother Amina works tirelessly to provide for herself and her 15-year old daughter Maria. When Amina discovers Maria is pregnant and does not want a child, the two women begin to seek out an abortion, condemned by both religion and law. In the process, mother and daughter forge a connection stronger than any they’ve ever known.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Firefly (2013)
After her estranged brother's sudden death, young wife Lucia bonds with his fiancée through their shared grief and finds herself falling in love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPortrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisMustang (2015)
In a Turkish village, five orphaned sisters live under strict rule while members of their family prepare their arranged marriages.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisJoyland (2022)
As a patriarchal family yearns for the birth of a son to continue their family line, their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance theatre and falls for its transgender starlet.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisI Am Not a Witch (2017)
Convicted of witchcraft, 8-year-old Shula is brought to live in a penal colony where witches do hard labour in service of the government.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like this45 Years (2015)
There is just one week until Kate Mercer's 45th wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband. The body of his first love has been discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps. By the time the party is upon them, five days later, there may not be a marriage left to celebrate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Atlantics?
The closest matches to Atlantics are Border (2018), The Five Devils (2022) and Happy as Lazzaro (2018). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Atlantics?
People who watched Atlantics most often go on to Border (2018), The Five Devils (2022) and Happy as Lazzaro (2018).
What is the highest-rated movie like Atlantics?
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), rated 8.1/10 by 3,100 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Atlantics?
All of Us Strangers (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like Atlantics?
Yes: The Five Devils (2022), Burning Ghost (2019) and Coma (2022).
How are movies similar to Atlantics chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Atlantics, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.