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10 Best Movies Like Oedipus Rex

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

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#1
Salomé

Salomé

2013★ 6.2

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

After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his k...

#2
My Tennis Maestro

My Tennis Maestro

2025★ 6.2

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

Italy, 1989. After years of hard training, 13-year-old Felice, carrying his father's expectations on his shoulders, finally sets out to compete in the national tennis tournaments. ...

#3
Skin

Skin

2009★ 6.4

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

Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era....

#4
God's Pocket

God's Pocket

2014★ 5.8

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

A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist and the young man's mother complicate matters....

#5
Euphoria

Euphoria

2018★ 6.5

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

Matteo is a young successful businessman, audacious, charming and energetic. Ettore instead, is a calm, righteous, second grade teacher always living in the shadows, still in the s...

#6
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

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

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of gettin...

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