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10 Best Movies Like Rosebud

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

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#1
Small Change

Small Change

1976★ 7.1

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

The lives of a motherless young man, who's just starting to find interest in women, and his physically abused, poverty stricken friend, are mixed with more or less innocent childho...

#2
The Godfather

The Godfather

1972★ 8.7

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

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attemp...

#3
Shutter Island

Shutter Island

2010★ 8.2

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

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by tro...

#4
Back to the Future

Back to the Future

1985★ 8.3

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

Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty mu...

#5
Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

2023★ 8.0

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

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II....

#6
The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption

1994★ 8.7

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

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting ski...