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10 Best Movies Like The Bad Poet

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

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#1
Dior and I

Dior and I

2015★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Bad Poet for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Behind-the-scenes documentary revealing what goes on inside the colourful, privileged, and sometimes stressful Christian Dior fashion house....

#2
Henry Gamble's Birthday Party

Henry Gamble's Birthday Party

2015★ 6.0

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

Unfolding over the course of one very eventful day in his life, at 17-year-old preacher’s kid Henry's afternoon birthday pool party, the guests include an assortment of grown-ups f...

#3
Emanuelle and the Porno Nights of the World N. 2

Emanuelle and the Porno Nights of the World N. 2

1978★ 4.9

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

Emanuelle hosts this peculiar sexploitation Mondo film that looks at several examples of bizarre sexual behavior....

#4
Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden

Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden

2016★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Bad Poet for fans of History & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Vienna, Austria, 1910. The young painter Egon Schiele is a rising artist, provocative and free, whose work, characterized by eroticism, shocks as much as it fascinates art lovers....

#5
Edgar Allan Poe's Ligeia

Edgar Allan Poe's Ligeia

2022★ 5.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Bad Poet for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A young artist, imprisoned within the trammels of opium addiction, relives his phantasmagorical courtship with a mysterious Soprano known only as Ligeia. While exploring these opiu...

#6
It Must Be Heaven

It Must Be Heaven

2019★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Bad Poet for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Filmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine....