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 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....

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
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...

Girl in the Box
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 ...

Iron Jawed Angels
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....

The Man Who Laughs
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....

Starving in Suburbia
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 ...