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10 Best Movies Like The Best Intentions

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

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#1
Fanny and Alexander

Fanny and Alexander

1982★ 7.8

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

As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company. After their father dies unexpectedly, however, the si...

#2
Captain Sabertooth and the Magical Diamond

Captain Sabertooth and the Magical Diamond

2020★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Best Intentions for fans of Animation. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Captain Sabertooth and his crew are up against a sunburnt vampire, a manipulating queen, a violent monkey army and two young pirates while on the hunt for the magical diamond....

#3
The Saga of Gösta Berling

The Saga of Gösta Berling

1924★ 6.5

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

Gösta Berling is a young and attractive minister. Because of his alcoholism and his daring sermons, he is finally defrocked. He becomes a tutor of countess Marta's stepdaughter and...

#4
It's Better to Be Healthy and Wealthy than Poor and Sick

It's Better to Be Healthy and Wealthy than Poor and Sick

1992★ 4.9

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

A satiric tragi-comedy about two women and their lover Robert who is an emigrant that keeps coming back. This film shows chaotic post-communist Europe after the fall of totalitaria...

#5
Condannato a nozze

Condannato a nozze

1993★ 4.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Best Intentions for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A neurotic lawyer is split between the desire to stay faithful to his fiancée and the one to cheat on her. Things take a turn for the literal when one night he splits into two diff...

#6
Sunday's Children

Sunday's Children

1992★ 6.2

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

Little Pu spends a summer in Norrland with all his relatives. He and his brother get to hear the story about the watchmaker who hung himself, learns to shoot with a bow and follow ...