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10 Best Movies Like Ed Wood

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

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#1
Babylon

Babylon

2022★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ed Wood for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition fro...

#2
The Man Who Wasn't There

The Man Who Wasn't There

2001★ 7.5

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

A tale of murder, crime and punishment set in the summer of 1949. Ed Crane, a barber in a small California town, is dissatisfied with his life, but his wife Doris' infidelity and a...

#3
Mank

Mank

2020★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ed Wood for fans of Drama & History. 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....

#4
Tangerine

Tangerine

2015★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ed Wood for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

It's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn't been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the working girl ...

#5
Dallas Buyers Club

Dallas Buyers Club

2013★ 7.9

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

Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug-taking, women-loving, homophobic man who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live....

#6
Judy

Judy

2019★ 6.7

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

Thirty years after starring in "The Wizard of Oz," beloved actress and singer Judy Garland arrives in London to perform sold-out shows at the Talk of the Town nightclub. While ther...

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