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10 Best Movies Like Every Brilliant Thing

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

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#1
Once

Once

2007★ 7.4

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

A vacuum repairman moonlights as a street musician and hopes for his big break. One day a Czech immigrant, who earns a living selling flowers, approaches him with the news that she...

#2
Team Foxcatcher

Team Foxcatcher

2016★ 7.0

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

With never-before seen home video, this film recounts the paranoid downward spiral of John E. du Pont and the murder of Olympic wrestler Dave Schultz....

#3
The Biggest Little Farm

The Biggest Little Farm

2019★ 7.6

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

The successes and failures of a couple determined to live in harmony with nature on a farm outside of Los Angeles are lovingly chronicled by filmmaking farmer John Chester, in this...

#4
Lily Topples The World

Lily Topples The World

2021★ 7.5

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

Follow 20-year-old Lily Hevesh — the world’s greatest domino toppler and the only woman in her field — in a coming-of-age story of artistry, passion, and unlikely triumph....

#5
Shutter Island

Shutter Island

2010★ 8.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Every Brilliant Thing 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...

#6
Titanic

Titanic

1997★ 7.9

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

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and...