10 Best Movies Like Brain on Fire
If you loved Brain on Fire, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.
Awakenings
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Brain on Fire for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversia...
Frances
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Brain on Fire for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted....
Girl, Interrupted
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Brain on Fire 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...
Christine
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Brain on Fire for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In 1974, television reporter Christine Chubbuck struggles with depression and professional frustrations as she tries to advance her career....
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Brain on Fire for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In New York City, the lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a house-cleaner, a professor, and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of life's col...
The Prince of Tides
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Brain on Fire for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A troubled Southern man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her (and New York City) in the process....