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10 Best Movies Like The Reading

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

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#1
Visitor Q

Visitor Q

2001★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Reading for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

In a dysfunctional family where the mother is a heroin addict and prostitute, beaten by her son, and the father is an ex-TV reporter, sleeping with his daughter and filming his son...

#2
Gramps Is in the Resistance

Gramps Is in the Resistance

1983★ 6.9

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

It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hu...

#3
The Visitors: Bastille Day

The Visitors: Bastille Day

2016★ 4.2

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

Stuck in the corridors of time, Godefroy de Montmirail and his faithful servant Jacquouille are projected to a time of profound political and social upheavals: the French Revolutio...

#4
Airport 1975

Airport 1975

1974★ 5.7

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

When an in-flight collision incapacitates the pilots of an airplane bound for Los Angeles, stewardess Nancy Pryor is forced to take over the controls. From the ground, her boyfrien...

#5
Q

Q

1982★ 5.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Reading for fans of Crime. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A fleeing gangland flunky discovers the New York nest of Aztec deity Quetzalcoatl, the man-eating flying serpent....

#6
The Man from Laramie

The Man from Laramie

1955★ 7.2

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

Will Lockhart arrives in Coronado, an isolated town in New Mexico, in search of someone who sells rifles to the Apache tribe, finding himself unwillingly drawn into the convoluted ...