Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Jan 19, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Maria

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

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#1
The Most Beautiful Girl in the World

The Most Beautiful Girl in the World

2025★ 6.6

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

A playboy stages a dating show to earn his inheritance by granting his father's last wish: for his son to marry the most beautiful girl in the world....

#2
Matt and Mara

Matt and Mara

2024★ 6.5

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

Mara is a young creative writing professor struggling with problems in her marriage to an experimental musician. One day, she runs into Matt, a charismatic, free-spirited author fr...

#3
Grand Theft Hamlet

Grand Theft Hamlet

2024★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Maria for fans of Animation. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Two unemployed friends have a fresh idea: they want to stage Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' in Grand Theft Auto. But even in a virtual world, reality intrudes in a wild and trippy film sho...

#4
Eternal Visionary

Eternal Visionary

2024★ 6.8

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

In 1934, while traveling to Stockholm, where he is about to receive the Nobel Prize, the Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello recalls his life and his relationship with the loved on...

#5
The Audience

The Audience

1972★ 6.5

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

Caustic satire on bureaucracy of the Vatican authority and a simple Italian who wants to achieve the audience with the Pope....

#6
Millers in Marriage

Millers in Marriage

2024★ 6.0

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

Eve Miller, a former indie rock singer, struggles with her toxic marriage while growing attracted to a music journalist. Her sister Maggie, a bestselling author, faces marital disc...