
10 Best Movies Like Acting: The First Six Lessons
If you loved Acting: The First Six Lessons, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Van Gogh: Painted with Words
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Acting: The First Six Lessons for fans of Drama & Documentary. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A drama-documentary presented by Alan Yentob, with Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead role. Every word spoken by the actors in this film is sourced from the letters that Van Gogh sen...

Iron Jawed Angels
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Acting: The First Six Lessons for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote....

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Acting: The First Six Lessons for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devot...

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Acting: The First Six Lessons for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
An acclaimed stage performer, Dorothy still struggled with the challenge of her color, in a time that wouldn't let some stars in by the front door. Yet against the odds she beat ou...

Not Easily Broken
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Acting: The First Six Lessons for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple....

Starving in Suburbia
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Acting: The First Six Lessons for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site ...