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10 Best Movies Like Brilliant Mistakes

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

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#1
Possession

Possession

2002★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Brilliant Mistakes for fans of Drama & Mystery & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Maud Bailey, a brilliant English academic, is researching the life and work of poet Christabel La Motte. Roland Michell is an American scholar in London to study Randolph Henry Ash...

#2
Autumn Leaves

Autumn Leaves

1956★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Brilliant Mistakes for fans of Drama & Mystery & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A woman falls for a younger man with severe mental problems....

#3
The Vanishing of Sidney Hall

The Vanishing of Sidney Hall

2018★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Brilliant Mistakes for fans of Drama & Mystery & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Over the course of 12 years, and three stages of life, Sidney Hall falls in love, writes the book of a generation and then disappears without a trace....

#4
Mr. K

Mr. K

2025★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Brilliant Mistakes for fans of Drama & Mystery. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Mr. K, a traveling magician, finds himself in a Kafkaesque nightmare when he can’t find the exit of his hotel. His attempts to get out only pull him deeper, entangling him further ...

#5
Departure

Departure

2016★ 6.4

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

An English mother and her teenage son spend a week preparing the sale of their remote holiday house in the South of France. Fifteen-year-old Elliot struggles with his dawning sexua...

#6
Copenhagen

Copenhagen

2014★ 6.6

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

After weeks of traveling through Europe, the immature William finds himself in Copenhagen, the place of his father’s birth. He befriends the youthful Effy, who works in William’s h...

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