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10 Best Movies Like The Great Lover

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

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#1
Brand Upon the Brain!

Brand Upon the Brain!

2007★ 6.5

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

After returning home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have lon...

#2
Wonderstruck

Wonderstruck

2017★ 6.1

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

The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection....

#3
They Won't Believe Me

They Won't Believe Me

1947★ 6.5

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

On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence o...

#4
National Theatre Live: Hamlet

National Theatre Live: Hamlet

2015★ 7.5

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

As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to avenge his father's death but paralyzed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages against the impossibility of his pr...

#5
Won't Back Down

Won't Back Down

2012★ 6.1

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

Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken...

#6
My Brilliant Career

My Brilliant Career

1979★ 6.2

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

A young woman who is determined to maintain her independence finds herself at odds with her family who wants her to tame her wild side and get married....

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