Movies like Exit Beirut (2025)
The best movies like Exit Beirut (2025) are What Maisie Knew (2013), Hungry Hearts (2015) and El Chicano (2019). If Exit Beirut hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedCharm City Kings (2020)7.8/10 from 508 votes
- NewestThe Cut (2025)Released 2025
What Maisie Knew (2013)
In New York City, six-year-old Maisie is caught in the middle of a bitter custody battle between her self-absorbed parents—an aging rock singer mother and a distracted art dealer father. As both quickly marry new partners to strengthen their legal standing, Maisie is shuttled back and forth in an endless game of emotional point-scoring. Yet amid the chaos and upheaval, Maisie begins to find true comfort and affection in her new step-parents.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHungry Hearts (2015)
The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEl Chicano (2019)
A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCardboard Boxer (2016)
Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCharm City Kings (2020)
Mouse desperately wants to join The Midnight Clique, the infamous Baltimore dirt bike riders who rule the summertime streets. When Midnight’s leader, Blax, takes 14-year-old Mouse under his wing, Mouse soon finds himself torn between the straight-and-narrow and a road filled with fast money and violence.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Young One (1960)
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMammal (2016)
After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the escalation of her ex-husband's grieving rage.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Kindness of Strangers (2019)
Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who gets them into an emergency shelter. While stealing food at a Russian restaurant called ‘Winter Palace’, Clara meets Marc, who has been given the chance to help the old eatery regain its former glory. The ‘Winter Palace’ soon becomes a place of unexpected encounters between people who are all undergoing some sort of crisis and whom fate has now brought together.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKisses (2008)
Two kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home on Christmas Day and spend a night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTigertail (2020)
A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHounddog (2008)
A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Attack (2012)
An Arab surgeon living in Tel Aviv discovers a dark secret about his wife in the aftermath of a suicide bombing.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Cut (2025)
A retired boxer intends to return to the ring for one last shot at the title, but first he must make the weight. Holed up in a room in Las Vegas with an unscrupulous trainer, he embarks on an intensive and illegal weight-cutting program.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHello (2022)
An emotionally unavailable flight attendant meets a potential love interest and later finds out that her "perfect guy" has ulterior motives. As the clock ticks down on New Year's Eve, she must fight to keep her murdered ex-boyfriend's secrets or find herself dead.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBastard Out of Carolina (1996)
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Sound of Silence (2019)
A successful "house tuner" in New York City, who calibrates the sound in people's homes in order to adjust their moods, meets a client with a problem he can't solve.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisSkin (2009)
Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisF.I.S.T. (1978)
Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher his methods become more ruthless and finally senator Madison starts a campaign to find the truth about the alleged connections with the Mob.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHoly Lands (2019)
When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks his family and his new neighbours. Back in New York, Harry’s ex-wife Monica is trying to manage the lives of their adult children, Annabelle and David, as well as her own.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHome (2021)
An ex-felon returns home from prison and must confront the demons of his past.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKoşar Adım (2020)
Omar is a young man who started out as a taxi driver. To get rid of his financial problems, he returns to the place he once went to gamble. He gambles away money that doesn't belong to him, and his way out of this situation takes him to a darker spot.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Fermuar Ucu (2020)
Asya works in a clothing store and also takes care of her mother and younger brother. It needs a new coat for cold weather in winter. However, he cannot balance the money.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Sprinkles (2020)
While babysitting Charlotte, 17-year-old Julianne decides to take a pregnancy test. Before seeing the result, the 7-year-old interrupts Julianne's work and pulls her into her pure, childlike universe.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Wedding Photo (2020)
Reyhan's dream is to take photos with her wedding gown. Go to the photo studio, her wedding dress was taken in a hurry, but Reyhan does not speak out for her dream. Father-in-law has spent money on everything but has a different account with the photographer than the previous year. For this reason, there is a dispute between the photographer and father-in-law and Reyhan cannot take pictures.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Guard (2020)
Kamil earns his living as a watchman at a seaside location with his family. As people leave their summer homes and get ready for winter, it seems that a harsh and calm winter awaits Kamil and his family. Besides the financial difficulties Kamil had, he was left completely alone with his internal conflict.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
At a Riverside (2020)
As a civilian group with a woman about to give birth fleeing to the safe zone from the Serbian genocide with a sizzling radio, they find that they are not by the river with the dog barking they hear, but they are on the side of something else ...
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Anoush (2020)
Anoush, a little girl, goes to borrow a wedding dress from a distant relative for her brother's wedding. Leyla, a teacher, comes home as a second intruder. Leyla has just been appointed to the village school. She learns that the village school had been abandoned many years ago and that there is no children in the school age. On the other hand, Anoush could not learn to write although he could read because her teacher resigned and left the village. Transportation between villages takes place once a day. Anoush and Leyla are forced to spend the night in the same house. Will the two passengers get what they want despite the long road?
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
The White Tree (2018)
He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Cleaner (2018)
A public toilet cleaner is concerned about her pregnancy test on a normal day of her work.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Son of Monarchs (2021)
A Mexican biologist living in New York returns to his hometown, nestled in the majestic butterfly forests of Michoacán. The journey forces him to confront past traumas and reflect on his hybrid identity, sparking a personal metamorphosis.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Exit Beirut?
The closest matches to Exit Beirut are What Maisie Knew (2013), Hungry Hearts (2015) and El Chicano (2019). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Exit Beirut?
Start with What Maisie Knew (2013), the closest match to Exit Beirut.
What is the highest-rated movie like Exit Beirut?
Charm City Kings (2020), rated 7.8/10 by 508 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Exit Beirut?
The Cut (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Exit Beirut?
Yes: What Maisie Knew (2013), Hungry Hearts (2015) and El Chicano (2019).
How are movies similar to Exit Beirut chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Exit Beirut, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.