Movies Like Two Distant Strangers (2020)

Two Distant Strangers is a 2020 drama film from Martin Desmond Roe with a MovieMagicScore of 7.1/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Cops and Robbers and Dark Blue.

Drama

Cops and Robbers

2020

Animation and activism unite in this multimedia spoken-word response to police brutality and racial injustice.

6.6

MagicScore

Dark Blue

2002

Set during the Rodney King riots, a robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events that will cause a corrupt LAPD officer to question his tactics.

6.2

MagicScore

The First Wave

2021

When Covid-19 hit New York City in 2020, filmmaker Matthew Heineman gained unique access to one of New York’s hardest-hit hospital systems. The resulting film focuses on the doctors, nurses, and patients on the frontlines during the “first wave” from March to June 2020. Their distinct storylines each serve as a microcosm to understand how the city persevered through the worst pandemic in a century

6.6

MagicScore

Stop-and-Cop Interactive

2009

STOP + Cop = "Stop" or "Slow down" ? Make the right choice. An interactice movie by Ken Arsyn.

8.5

MagicScore

A Day

2017

Three years ago, a father saved his daughter's life. After she's involved in a car accident, it looks like he'll have to do it again, no matter how many attempts it takes.

7.8

MagicScore

Sore: A Wife from the Future

2025

A young man living alone in Croatia encounters a woman who claims to be his wife from the future, sent on a mission to help him correct his bad habits and improve his lifestyle.

7.7

MagicScore

The 100th Love with You

2017

On July 27th, university student Aoi Hinata has an accident. When she wakes up, Aoi Hinata finds herself in a classroom from one week before the accident.

7.6

MagicScore

Groundhog Day

1993

A narcissistic TV weatherman, along with his attractive-but-distant producer, and his mawkish cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsutawney, where he finds himself repeating the same day over and over.

7.6

MagicScore

The Shawshank Redemption

1994

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.

8.7

MagicScore

#10

Run Lola Run

1998

Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. She has 20 minutes to raise this amount and meet Manni. Otherwise, he will rob a store to get the money. Three different alternatives may happen depending on some minor event along Lola's run.

7.3

MagicScore

#11

City of God

2002

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.

8.4

MagicScore

#12

Léon: The Professional

1994

Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year-old Mathilda. Before long, Mathilda's thoughts turn to revenge, and she considers following in Léon's footsteps.

8.3

MagicScore

#13

1000 Mabrouk

2009

A man finds himself stuck in a mysterious time loop, reliving the same day again and again. As the cycle repeats, he is forced to confront his daily routines, question his relationships, and search for meaning in a world that refuses to change.

7.0

MagicScore

#14

Before I Fall

2017

Samantha Kingston has everything. Then, everything changes. After one fateful night, she wakes up with no future at all. Trapped into reliving the same day over and over, she begins to question just how perfect her life really was.

7.0

MagicScore

#15

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

1970

Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and the social order it protects.

8.2

MagicScore

#16

La Haine

1995

After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news about the state of health of a mutual friend who has been seriously injured when confronting the police.

8.1

MagicScore

#17

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

2017

After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.

8.1

MagicScore

#18

Elite Squad

2007

In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged.

8.1

MagicScore

#19

Memories of Murder

2003

During the late 1980s, two detectives in a South Korean province attempt to solve series of gruesome rape-and-murder of young women.

8.1

MagicScore

#20

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch

2018

In 1984, a young programmer begins to question reality as he adapts a dark fantasy novel into a video game. A mind-bending tale with multiple endings.

6.8

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Two Distant Strangers?

The top films similar to Two Distant Strangers by MovieMagicScore are Cops and Robbers (6.6), Dark Blue (6.2), The First Wave (6.6). Each shares drama themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Two Distant Strangers worth watching?

Two Distant Strangers holds a MovieMagicScore of 7.1/10 from 486 viewer ratings, putting it among the better-reviewed titles in its genre.

What kind of movie is Two Distant Strangers?

Two Distant Strangers (2020) is a drama film directed by Martin Desmond Roe, starring Joey Bada$$, Andrew Howard, Zaria.

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About movies like Two Distant Strangers

This ranked list pairs Two Distant Strangers (2020), a drama film from Martin Desmond Roe, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Joey Bada$$ take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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