Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Jan 19, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Mug

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

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#1
Faces Places

Faces Places

2017★ 7.6

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

Director Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship....

#2
Sometimes I Think About Dying

Sometimes I Think About Dying

2024★ 6.7

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

Fran likes to think about dying. It brings sensation to her quiet life. When she makes the new guy at work laugh, it leads to more: a date, a slice of pie, a conversation, a spark....

#3
Spoor

Spoor

2017★ 6.2

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

A story about Janina Duszejko, an elderly woman, who lives alone in the Klodzko Valley where a series of mysterious crimes are committed. Duszejko is convinced that she knows who (...

#4
I Am Not Your Negro

I Am Not Your Negro

2017★ 7.7

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

Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United States....

#5
The Last Witness

The Last Witness

2018★ 5.8

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

An ambitious young journalist uncovers the horrific slaughter of 22,000 Polish officers during World War II, a secret kept hidden for far too many years....

#6
Afterimage

Afterimage

2016★ 6.6

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

In 1945, as Stalin sets his hands over Poland, famous painter Wladislaw Strzeminski refuses to compromise on his art with the doctrines of social realism. Persecuted, expelled from...