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10 Best Movies Like Citizen Kane

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

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#1
Casablanca

Casablanca

1943★ 8.1

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

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications....

#2
Touch of Evil

Touch of Evil

1958★ 7.8

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

When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas begins his investigation, along with American police captain H...

#3
The Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz

1939★ 7.6

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

Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wi...

#4
Mank

Mank

2020★ 6.7

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

1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane....

#5
Modern Times

Modern Times

1936★ 8.3

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

A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.....

#6
The Third Man

The Third Man

1949★ 7.9

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

In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a c...