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10 Best Movies Like Promising Young Woman

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

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#1
Sound of Metal

Sound of Metal

2020★ 7.7

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

Metal drummer Ruben begins to lose his hearing. When a doctor tells him his condition will worsen, he thinks his career and life is over. His girlfriend Lou checks the former addic...

#2
Minari

Minari

2021★ 7.3

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

A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the challenges of this new life in the strange and rugged Ozarks, they discover the u...

#3
Judas and the Black Messiah

Judas and the Black Messiah

2021★ 7.3

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

Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers on the orders of FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends—falling for a fellow revolutionar...

#4
Like Stars on Earth

Like Stars on Earth

2007★ 8.0

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

Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate. Colours, fish, dogs, and kites don't seem important to the adults, who ...

#5
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

1989★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Promising Young Woman for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Bill and Ted are high school buddies starting a band. They are also about to fail their history class—which means Ted would be sent to military school—but receive help from Rufus, ...

#6
The Father

The Father

2020★ 8.1

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

A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages and, as he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the...