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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
Author! Author!

Author! Author!

1982★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to King Lear for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A broadway playwright is burning the candle at both ends. He is dealing with pressure from a production nearing premiere, a wife who is leaving him, and 5 children 4 of which belon...

#2
Julia

Julia

1977★ 6.5

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

At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany....

#3
Is This Thing On?

Is This Thing On?

2025★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to King Lear for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

As their marriage quietly unravels, Alex faces middle age and an impending divorce, seeking new purpose in the New York comedy scene while Tess confronts the sacrifices she made fo...

#4
The Middle Man

The Middle Man

2021★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to King Lear for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Frank Farrelli takes on the job as a middle man in the God-forsaken town of Karmack, USA, a community in a depression so deep that they need a middle man to professionally communic...

#5
Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night

1996★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to King Lear for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Shakespeare's comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl disguises herself as a man to be near the count she adores, only to be pursued by the woman he loves....

#6
Still Breathing

Still Breathing

1997★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to King Lear for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Two lost souls: she a con-artist in L.A.; he a puppeteer in San Antonio have the same dream linking each with the other. He travels to L.A. to find this woman he has become obsesse...

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