
10 Best Movies Like Detachment
If you loved Detachment, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

A Single Man
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Detachment for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Set in Los Angeles in 1962, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, is the story of a British college professor who dwells on the past and cannot see his future. We follow him t...

Vampire
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Detachment for fans of Drama. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.
An outwardly normal schoolteacher preys on suicidal women to slake his overwhelming thirst for human blood....

Sorry, Baby
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Detachment for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Agnes feels stuck. Unlike her best friend, Lydie, who’s moved to New York and is now expecting a baby, Agnes still lives in the New England house they once shared as graduate stude...

Dead Poets Society
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Detachment for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, cour...

Lemonade Mouth
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Detachment for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
When five ragtag freshman first meet in detention, it seems they have nothing in common. But, through music, they form an unbreakable bond and discover they have the makings of the...

Wonder Boys
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Detachment for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Grady is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years—not since he wrote his award winning 'Great American Novel' 7 years ago. This weekend proves even wors...