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10 Best Movies Like A Season in Hell

If you loved A Season in Hell, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Total Eclipse

Total Eclipse

1995★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Season in Hell for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle....

#2
The Happy Prince

The Happy Prince

2018★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Season in Hell for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 1895, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was the most famous writer in London, and Bosie Douglas, son of the notorious Marquess of Queensberry, was his lover. Accused and convicted of gros...

#3
The Danish Girl

The Danish Girl

2015★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Season in Hell for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as Lili Elbe. Having realized her ...

#4
Lord of the Ants

Lord of the Ants

2022★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Season in Hell for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Based on true events of the late 60s in Italy, poet, playwright and myrmecologist Aldo Braibanti is prosecuted and sentenced to prison for the love he shares with his barely-of-age...

#5
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon

Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon

1998★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Season in Hell for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In the 1960s, British painter Francis Bacon surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed. The burglar, a working class man named George Dyer, accepts. After the unique begi...

#6
Colette

Colette

2018★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Season in Hell for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France to the intellectual and artis...

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