10 Best Movies Like King Lear
If you loved King Lear, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

King Lear
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to King Lear for fans of TV Movie & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one....

Hamlet
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to King Lear for fans of TV Movie & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
David Tennant stars in a film of the Royal Shakespeare Company's award-winning production of Shakespeare's great play. Director Gregory Doran's modern-dress production was hailed b...

The Unforgivable
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to King Lear for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past....

Hamlet
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to King Lear for fans of History & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge....

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to King Lear for fans of TV Movie & Drama. 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...

Girl in the Box
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to King Lear for fans of TV Movie & Drama. 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 ...