Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 13, 2026

10 Best Movies Like The Idiot

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

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#1
Norman

Norman

2010★ 6.1

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

A teenager pretends to be dying from cancer as a way to cope with the realities of his daily existence and his father's terminal illness....

#2
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#3
Bride & Prejudice

Bride & Prejudice

2004★ 6.4

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

Mrs. Bakshi is eager to find suitors for her four unmarried daughters when a family friend introduces them to handsome American Will Darcy. A Bollywood-style modern adaptation of J...

#4
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

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

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of gettin...

#5
Return

Return

2011★ 6.4

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

Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes....

#6
Salomé

Salomé

2013★ 6.2

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

After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his k...

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