Movies Like My Salinger Year

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

Rebel in the Rye

2017·1h 46m·★ 6.7·Danny Strong

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2021·1h 44m·★ 5.9·Iuli Gerbase

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Memento

2000·1h 53m·★ 8.4·Christopher Nolan

Themes: memory, flashback

Apocalypse Now

1979·2h 27m·★ 8.4·Francis Ford Coppola

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Dead Poets Society

1989·2h 9m·★ 8.1·Peter Weir

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

2004·1h 48m·★ 8.3·Michel Gondry

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Wings of Desire

1987·2h 8m·★ 7.9·Wim Wenders

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Rosemary's Baby

1968·2h 18m·★ 8.0·Roman Polanski

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Do the Right Thing

1989·2h·★ 7.9·Spike Lee

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Hero

2002·1h 39m·★ 7.9·Zhang Yimou

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Close Encounters of the Third Kind

1977·2h 17m·★ 7.6·Steven Spielberg

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Dirty Dancing

1987·1h 40m·★ 7.1·Emile Ardolino

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Lolita

1962·2h 34m·★ 7.5·Stanley Kubrick

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Dangerous Liaisons

1988·1h 59m·★ 7.5·Stephen Frears

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8 Mile

2002·1h 51m·★ 7.2·Curtis Hanson

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American Graffiti

1973·1h 52m·★ 7.4·George Lucas

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2022·1h 33m·★ 6.2·Fabio Resinaro

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The Jazz Singer

1927·1h 36m·★ 6.4·Alan Crosland

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Animal Farm

1999·1h 31m·★ 6.0·John Stephenson

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Sliver

1993·1h 47m·★ 5.1·Phillip Noyce

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