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10 Best Movies Like The Great Director

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

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#1
365 Days: This Day

365 Days: This Day

2022★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Great Director for fans of Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Laura and Massimo are back and hotter than ever. But the reunited couple's new beginning is complicated by Massimo’s family ties and a mysterious man who enters Laura’s life to win...

#2
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

2001★ 7.9

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

Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard—with a place waiting for him at the...

#3
Mulan

Mulan

2020★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Great Director for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

When the Emperor of China issues a decree that one man per family must serve in the Imperial Chinese Army to defend the country from Huns, Hua Mulan, the eldest daughter of an hono...

#4
Doctor Strange

Doctor Strange

2016★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Great Director for fans of Fantasy. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes him under her wing and trains him to defend the world against evil....

#5
Kung Fu Panda

Kung Fu Panda

2008★ 7.3

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

Chosen by prophecy but doubted by all, Po is an unlikely Dragon Warrior—a clumsy panda thrust into the world of kung fu as a deadly enemy threatens the Valley of Peace. Guided by M...

#6
The Godfather

The Godfather

1972★ 8.7

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

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attemp...