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10 Best Movies Like The Poet

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

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#1
Paper Lives

Paper Lives

2021★ 8.0

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

In the streets of Istanbul, ailing waste warehouse worker Mehmet takes a small boy under his wing and must soon confront his own traumatic childhood....

#2
Blind

Blind

2017★ 6.2

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

A novelist is blinded in a car crash that killed his wife and several years later rediscovers his passion for life and writing when he embarks on an affair with the neglected wife ...

#3
Rose Plays Julie

Rose Plays Julie

2021★ 5.8

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

A story of a young woman searching for her biological mother. Set against a backdrop of misogyny, revenge, and longing, Rose undertakes a journey that leads her to revelations that...

#4
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Poet 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
Honey

Honey

2010★ 6.8

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

In the remote and undeveloped eastern Black Sea region, a six-year-old boy (Yusuf) wanders through the woods searching for his lost father, trying to make sense of his life.His fat...

#6
XX/XY

XX/XY

2002★ 5.8

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

Three friends begin a dangerous three-way relationship that spirals out of control, leading to dire consequences that haunt them ten years later....

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