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10 Best Movies Like Punch-Drunk Love

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

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#1
The Master

The Master

2012★ 7.1

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

Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto the ship of Lancaster Dodd, the ...

#2
Hard Eight

Hard Eight

1997★ 6.8

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

A stranger mentors a young Reno gambler who weds a hooker and befriends a vulgar casino regular....

#3
Boogie Nights

Boogie Nights

1997★ 7.6

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

Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner disc...

#4
Magnolia

Magnolia

1999★ 7.7

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

On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game sh...

#5
Adaptation.

Adaptation.

2002★ 7.3

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

Charlie Kaufman is a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin...

#6
Inherent Vice

Inherent Vice

2014★ 6.5

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

In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend....