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10 Best Movies Like His Name Was Vian

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

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#1
My Dinner with Hervé

My Dinner with Hervé

2018★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to His Name Was Vian for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-toting dwarf, resulting in life-ch...

#2
Tuesdays with Morrie

Tuesdays with Morrie

1999★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to His Name Was Vian for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A journalist finds himself questioning his own life when his best friend, a dying man, offers him some very powerful wisdom and advice for coping in relationships, careers and soci...

#3
TalhotBlond

TalhotBlond

2012★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to His Name Was Vian for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately lead...

#4
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

1996★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to His Name Was Vian for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devot...

#5
Love Finds You in Valentine

Love Finds You in Valentine

2016★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to His Name Was Vian for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Kennedy Blaine, a Californian girl, inherits a ranch in the small town of Valentine in Nebraska. Before she sells the property, she decides to spend the summer in her house and lea...

#6
Girl in the Box

Girl in the Box

2016★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to His Name Was Vian for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as ...

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