If you loved The Place Beyond the Pines, try The Light Between Oceans

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. The Light Between Oceans has roughly 3.6× fewer votes than The Place Beyond the Pines — 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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The Place Beyond the Pines

2013 · dir. Derek Cianfrance

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The Light Between Oceans

2016 · dir. Derek Cianfrance

What they share

Both films are directed by Derek Cianfrance, and they both carry the gut punch mood tag, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Place Beyond the Pines, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

gut punch

What The Light Between Oceans is

Someone thought a remote lighthouse was the perfect setting for a romance. A lighthouse keeper and his wife find a baby in a rowboat. It predictably gets complicated.

If you loved The Place Beyond the Pines, try The Light Between Oceans

The Place Beyond the Pines

The Light Between Oceans

What they share

What The Light Between Oceans is

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