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10 Best Movies Like My True Brilliant Friend

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

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#1
Full Speed

Full Speed

2016★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My True Brilliant Friend for fans of Family. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A family together with their grandpa go on a vacation, when their new car won't stop and it nearly escapes crashing into a hundred cars....

#2
Forgive Us Our Debts

Forgive Us Our Debts

2018★ 6.1

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

Threatened by creditors, a newly unemployed man agrees to work for a debt collector, but soon discovers his deal with the devil has unexpected costs....

#3
Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me

Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me

2023★ 7.8

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

The life of a dying young man at the short age of only forty-one after playing the lead in Il postino. He was a brilliant stage actor before becoming an astonishing film director....

#4
Three Kilometres to the End of the World

Three Kilometres to the End of the World

2024★ 6.5

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

Adi, a gay teenager, is spending the summer in his home village in the Danube Delta. One night he is brutally attacked on the street, the next day his world is turned upside-down. ...

#5
The Princess Diaries

The Princess Diaries

2001★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My True Brilliant Friend for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A socially awkward but very bright 15-year-old girl being raised by a single mom discovers that she is the princess of a small European country because of the recent death of her l...

#6
Once Upon a Time in America

Once Upon a Time in America

1984★ 8.4

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

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old li...