Movies Like Heart Beat

Ranked by shared directors, cast, themes, genre, and era — not just generic recommendations.

Return to Macon County

1975·1h 30m·★ 5.6·Richard Compton

Themes: on the road, 1950sStarring Nick Nolte

The Dreamers

2003·1h 55m·★ 7.1·Bernardo Bertolucci

Themes: polyamory, love triangle

The Brutalist

2024·3h 35m·★ 7.2·Brady Corbet

Themes: post world war ii, 1950s

Dead Poets Society

1989·2h 9m·★ 8.1·Peter Weir

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Andrei Rublev

1966·3h 3m·★ 8.0·Andrei Tarkovsky

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Rosemary's Baby

1968·2h 18m·★ 8.0·Roman Polanski

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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

1974·1h 33m·★ 8.0·Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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Cinderella Man

2005·2h 24m·★ 8.0·Ron Howard

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Breaking the Waves

1996·2h 39m·★ 7.8·Lars von Trier

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Highway

2014·2h 13m·★ 7.6·Imtiaz Ali

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Don't Look Now

1973·1h 50m·★ 7.1·Nicolas Roeg

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The Murderers Are Among Us

1946·1h 21m·★ 7.4·Wolfgang Staudte

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The Assassination of Richard Nixon

2004·1h 35m·★ 6.9·Niels Mueller

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Crash

1996·1h 40m·★ 6.4·David Cronenberg

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Who'll Stop the Rain

1978·2h 6m·★ 6.6·Karel Reisz

Both star Nick Nolte & Ray Sharkey

Willenbrock

2005·1h 45m·★ 6.8·Andreas Dresen

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The Jazz Singer

1927·1h 36m·★ 6.4·Alan Crosland

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Die My Love

2025·1h 59m·★ 6.0·Lynne Ramsay

Both star Sissy Spacek & Nick Nolte

How Good Is Heart Beat?

Ratings across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, and TMDB, plus our verdict.