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

Starving in Suburbia
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Special Effects for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site ...

TalhotBlond
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Special Effects for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately lead...

Cheaters
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Special Effects for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition....

Heaven
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Special Effects for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Heaven Leigh Casteel, gifted and intelligent, is the eldest of five dirt-poor children struggling to survive in a mountain shack. As she endures neglect and abuse, Heaven discovers...

The Magic of Ordinary Days
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Special Effects for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII....

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Special Effects for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devot...