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10 Best Movies Like Burden

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

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#1
The Zookeeper's Wife

The Zookeeper's Wife

2017★ 7.3

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

The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion....

#2
20 Feet from Stardom

20 Feet from Stardom

2013★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Burden for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Backup singers live in a world that lies just beyond the spotlight. Their voices bring harmony to the biggest bands in popular music, but we've had no idea who these singers are or...

#3
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Burden for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....

#4
The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption

1994★ 8.7

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

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting ski...

#5
The Godfather

The Godfather

1972★ 8.7

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

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attemp...

#6
Shutter Island

Shutter Island

2010★ 8.2

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

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by tro...