Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 17, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Lightbulb

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

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#1
Tigertail

Tigertail

2020★ 6.7

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

A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter....

#2
Return

Return

2011★ 6.4

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

Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes....

#3
Cardboard Boxer

Cardboard Boxer

2016★ 6.3

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

Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl....

#4
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

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

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell....

#5
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#6
Henry Poole Is Here

Henry Poole Is Here

2008★ 5.9

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

Henry Poole abandons his fiancée and family business to spend what he believes are his remaining days alone. The discovery of a 'miracle' by a nosy neighbor ruptures his solitude a...

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