
10 Best Movies Like Shine
If you loved Shine, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Bird
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shine for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Saxophone player Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker comes to New York in 1940 and is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries t...

Nowhere Boy
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shine for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A rebellious teenager, future Beatle John Lennon lives with his Aunt Mimi in working-class mid-1950s Liverpool, England. Mimi's husband suddenly dies, and John spies his mother Jul...

Quartet
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shine for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Cissy, Reggie, and Wilf are in a home for retired musicians. Every year, there is a concert to celebrate Composer Giuseppe Verdi's birthday and they take part. Jean, who used to be...

Stoker
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shine for fans of Drama. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.
After India’s father dies suddenly, her uncle Charlie, whom she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her emotionally unstable mother. Soon after his arrival, she begins t...

Crooklyn
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shine for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in '70s Brooklyn....

The Beaver
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shine for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Suffering from a severe case of depression, toy company CEO Walter Black begins using a beaver hand puppet to help him open up to his family. With his father seemingly going insane...