If you loved Return, try Elvis & Nixon

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Elvis & Nixon has roughly 8.9× fewer votes than Return — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Return

2011 · dir. Liza Johnson

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Elvis & Nixon

2016 · dir. Liza Johnson

What they share

Both films are directed by Liza Johnson, and they both carry the outsider mood tag, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Return, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Elvis & Nixon is

Here's a movie that asks, "What if?" without really needing to. Elvis wants to be a federal agent, so he requests a meeting with President Nixon. This is a mostly true story, or so the movie insists.

If you loved Return, try Elvis & Nixon

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What they share

What Elvis & Nixon is

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