If You Liked Passing, Watch These Next

Finished Passing (2021) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Passing, most of them are drama.

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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026

1.Wonderstruck(2017)
6.1DramaAlso drama
The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection.
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2.Ragtime(1981)
7.0DramaHistoryAlso drama
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
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3.Killer's Kiss(1955)
6.3ThrillerCrimeDramaAlso drama
Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However, their budding relationship is interrupted by Gloria's violent boss, Vincent Rapallo, who has eyes for Gloria. The two decide to skip town, but before they can, Vincent and his thugs abduct Gloria, and Davey is forced…
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4.The Namesake(2007)
6.8DramaAlso drama
The American-born son of Indian immigrants strives to fit in among his fellow New Yorkers despite his family's unwillingness to let go of their traditional ways.
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5.Julia(1977)
6.5DramaHistoryAlso drama
At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.
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6.Night and the City(1950)
7.5DramaCrimeAlso drama
Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.
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7.The Best of Enemies(2019)
7.4DramaHistoryAlso drama
Centers on the unlikely relationship between Ann Atwater, an outspoken civil rights activist, and C.P. Ellis, a local Ku Klux Klan leader who reluctantly co-chaired a community summit, battling over the desegregation of schools in Durham, North Carolina during the racially-charged summer of 1971. The incredible…
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8.Gigi & Nate(2022)
7.7DramaAlso drama
A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend.
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9.Cabrini(2024)
7.7HistoryDramaAlso drama
Italian immigrant Francesca Cabrini arrives in 1889 New York City and is greeted by disease, crime, and impoverished children. Cabrini sets off on a daring mission to convince the hostile mayor to secure housing and healthcare for society's most vulnerable. With broken English and poor health, Cabrini uses her…
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10.The Wrong Man(1956)
7.1CrimeDramaAlso drama
In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.
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11.Hammett(1982)
6.2DramaThrillerAlso drama
Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a living, receives an unexpected visit from an old friend asking for help.
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12.Cry of the City(1948)
6.7CrimeDramaAlso drama
Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another crime. Police Lt. Candella must check Niles' allegation; a friend of the Rome family, he walks a tightrope between sentiment and cynicism.…
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13.What Maisie Knew(2013)
7.1DramaAlso drama
In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.
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14.The Sound of Silence(2019)
5.8DramaAlso drama
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.
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15.Skin(2009)
6.4DramaAlso drama
Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
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16.The Help(2011)
8.2DramaAlso drama
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan…
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17.A Complete Unknown(2024)
7.1DramaMusicAlso drama
New York, early 1960s. Against the backdrop of a vibrant music scene and tumultuous cultural upheaval, an enigmatic 19-year-old from Minnesota arrives in the West Village with his guitar and revolutionary talent, destined to change the course of American music.
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18.Genius(2016)
6.5HistoryDramaAlso drama
New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown writer falls into his hands, Perkins is convinced he has discovered a literary genius.
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19.The Giver(2014)
6.6DramaScience FictionAlso drama
In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.
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20.The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds(1972)
7.3DramaAlso drama
Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal. Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly…
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