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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.

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#1
King Lear

King Lear

2018★ 6.1

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

#2
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 King Lear 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...

#3
Girl in the Box

Girl in the Box

2016★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to King Lear 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 ...

#4
Iron Jawed Angels

Iron Jawed Angels

2004★ 6.8

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

Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote....

#5
The Man Who Laughs

The Man Who Laughs

1928★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to King Lear for fans of Drama. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

When a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly executed and his son surgically disfigured....

#6
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

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

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site ...

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