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10 Best Movies Like Split Wide Open

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

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#1
Bonku Babu

Bonku Babu

2014★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Split Wide Open for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A hilarious comedy about a Bengali patriarch Banku Babu who dominates his entire household in completely averse to changes until he meets with an accident which results in about of...

#2
Jimmy Scott: If You Only Knew

Jimmy Scott: If You Only Knew

2002★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Split Wide Open for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Overcoming Kallman’s Syndrome, prejudice, self-destruction and powerful enemies in the music industry, rediscovered jazz legend Jimmy Scott recounts his rise and fall and rise agai...

#3
The Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice

2004★ 6.8

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

Venice, 1596. Bassanio begs his friend Antonio, a prosperous merchant, to lend him a large sum of money so that he can woo Portia, a very wealthy heiress; but Antonio has invested ...

#4
Starbuck

Starbuck

2011★ 6.9

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

David Wozniak is a perpetual adolescent who discovers that, as a sperm donor, he has fathered 533 children. He is advised that more than 100 of his offspring are trying to force th...

#5
Awakenings

Awakenings

1990★ 7.8

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

Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversia...

#6
Shutter Island

Shutter Island

2010★ 8.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Split Wide Open for fans of Drama. 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...