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10 Best Movies Like Howl

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

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#1
Kill Your Darlings

Kill Your Darlings

2013★ 7.0

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

A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs....

#2
My Policeman

My Policeman

2022★ 7.6

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

In the late 1990s, the arrival of elderly invalid Patrick into Marion and Tom’s home triggers the exploration of seismic events from 40 years previous: the passionate relationship ...

#3
The Way We Were

The Way We Were

1973★ 7.0

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

Opposites attract when, during their college days, Katie Morosky, a politically active Jew, meets Hubbell Gardiner, a feckless WASP. Years later, in the wake of World War II, they ...

#4
Benediction

Benediction

2021★ 6.2

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

Poet Siegfried Sassoon survived the horrors of fighting in the First World War and was decorated for his bravery, but became a vocal critic of the government's continuation of the ...

#5
Queer

Queer

2024★ 6.6

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

In 1950s Mexico City, William Lee, an American ex-pat in his late forties, leads a solitary life amidst a small American community. However, the arrival in town of Eugene Allerton,...

#6
Far from Heaven

Far from Heaven

2002★ 7.1

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

In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife's life is upended by a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in society....

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