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10 Best Movies Like The Burden

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

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#1
Destino

Destino

2003★ 7.2

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

Short film to a song of love lost and rediscovered, a woman sees and undergoes surreal transformations. Her lover's face melts off, she dons a dress from the shadow of a bell and b...

#2
The Cowboy and the Frenchman

The Cowboy and the Frenchman

1988★ 6.0

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

A grizzled, hard-of-hearing cowboy, Slim, and his two friends, Dusty and Pete, capture a mysterious, well-dressed Frenchman....

#3
Heavy Traffic

Heavy Traffic

1973★ 6.4

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

A white dropout struggles to become a cartoonist and filmmaker, drawing inspiration from the harsh, gritty world around him. Still sharing his rundown apartment with his middle-age...

#4
Nowhere

Nowhere

1997★ 6.8

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

In Los Angeles, a colorful assortment of bohemians try to make sense of their intersecting lives. The moody Dark Smith, his bisexual girlfriend, her lesbian lover and their shy gay...

#5
Mainstream

Mainstream

2021★ 6.3

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

A young woman thinks she’s found a path to internet stardom when she starts making YouTube videos with a charismatic stranger – until the dark side of viral celebrity threatens to...

#6
My Wife's Relations

My Wife's Relations

1922★ 6.2

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

Buster and a woman are mistakenly married and her initially unfriendly family begins to treat him nicely when they come to believe he has a large inheritance awaiting him....

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