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10 Best Movies Like An Unlikely Romance

If you loved An Unlikely Romance, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Girl, Interrupted

Girl, Interrupted

1999★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to An Unlikely Romance for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wond...

#2
Neverwas

Neverwas

2005★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to An Unlikely Romance for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Zach Riley is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, Millwood. What he doesn't reveal at the time o...

#3
Patch Adams

Patch Adams

1998★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to An Unlikely Romance for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

The true story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, who in the 1970s found that humor is the best medicine, and was willing to do just anything to make his patients laugh—even if it meant ...

#4
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1975★ 8.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to An Unlikely Romance for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domine...

#5
Possessed

Possessed

1947★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to An Unlikely Romance for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there....

#6
On the Edge

On the Edge

2001★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to An Unlikely Romance for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A suicidal young man is committed to a Dublin psychiatric hospital where he meets new friends who greatly influence his life....

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