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10 Best Movies Like It's Consuming Me

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

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#1
Love and Death on Long Island

Love and Death on Long Island

1998★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It's Consuming Me for fans of Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Curmudgeonly author Giles De'Ath, a widower with a marked distaste for modern popular culture, attempts to buy a ticket for a film adaptation of an E.M. Forster novel, but instead ...

#2
Akron

Akron

2015★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It's Consuming Me for fans of Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Benny, a college freshman at the University of Akron, Ohio meets and falls for fellow freshman Christopher at a football game. With the support of their families and friends they e...

#3
Benjamin

Benjamin

2019★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It's Consuming Me for fans of Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Benjamin, a rising star filmmaker, is on the brink of premiering his difficult second film No Self at the London Film Festival when Billie, his hard drinking publicist, introduces ...

#4
Mo' Better Blues

Mo' Better Blues

1990★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It's Consuming Me for fans of Music. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he is forced to come to the aid o...

#5
In a Heartbeat

In a Heartbeat

2017★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It's Consuming Me for fans of Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A closeted boy runs the risk of being outed by his own heart after it pops out of his chest to chase down the boy of his dreams....

#6
Ruth & Boaz

Ruth & Boaz

2025★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It's Consuming Me for fans of Romance & Music. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A talented singer leaves the Atlanta music scene and starts over in small-town Tennessee, where she finds love and new purpose but can't escape the past....

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