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10 Best Movies Like Paradise Lost

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

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#1
Good Luck

Good Luck

2014★ 7.3

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

After several behavior problems, teenager John is admitted to a psychiatric clinic by his family. There he meets Judith, for who he soon falls in love. The problem is that she does...

#2
Olga

Olga

2004★ 7.1

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

Based upon the true story of Olga Benário, the German-born wife of Brazilian communist leader Luís Carlos Prestes. During the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas (1930-1945) she was arr...

#3
My Dinner with Hervé

My Dinner with Hervé

2018★ 6.3

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

An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-toting dwarf, resulting in life-ch...

#4
Stage Mother

Stage Mother

2020★ 6.1

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

A conservative church-choir director moves from Texas to San Francisco to run her deceased gay son's drag club....

#5
Federal Bank Heist

Federal Bank Heist

2011★ 6.3

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

"The Baron" wanted to commit the perfect heist involving 3 tons of money and no violence. For this he would need the right people willing to get 1 million dollars to take part in t...

#6
Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?

Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?

1983★ 5.7

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

Zee is walking up and down Manhattan streets, talking to herself and to the husband who has just left her. At a sidewalk café she runs into Eli, and a very unlikely, funny and touc...