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10 Best Movies Like Someone Important

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

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#1
The Girl in the Book

The Girl in the Book

2015★ 5.8

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

The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present....

#2
Strange Weather

Strange Weather

2016★ 5.8

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

Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea....

#3
The Unforgivable

The Unforgivable

2021★ 7.4

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

A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past....

#4
Girl, Interrupted

Girl, Interrupted

1999★ 7.6

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

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wond...

#5
Turtles All the Way Down

Turtles All the Way Down

2024★ 7.3

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

Aza confronts her potential for love, happiness, friendship, and hope while navigating an endless barrage of invasive, obsessive thoughts....

#6
The Mustang

The Mustang

2019★ 6.9

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

While participating in a rehabilitation program training wild mustangs, a convict at first struggles to connect with the horses and his fellow inmates, but he learns to confront hi...

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