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10 Best Movies Like The Show Must Go On

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

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#1
The Age of Shadows

The Age of Shadows

2016★ 7.2

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

Set in the late 1920s, The Age of Shadows follows the cat-and-mouse game that unfolds between a group of resistance fighters trying to bring in explosives from Shanghai to destroy ...

#2
The Sea Inside

The Sea Inside

2004★ 7.6

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

Ramón Sampedro is a ship mechanic and part-time poet left a quadriplegic following a diving accident. Ramón fought for 30 years for the legal right to end his own life. He develops...

#3
The Good, the Bad, the Weird

The Good, the Bad, the Weird

2008★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Show Must Go On for fans of Action & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

The story of three Korean outlaws in 1930s Manchuria and their dealings with the Japanese army and Chinese and Russian bandits. The Good (a bounty hunter), the Bad (a hitman), and ...

#4
Othello

Othello

1951★ 7.3

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

When a secret marriage is planned between Othello, a Moorish general, and Desdemona, the daughter of Senator Brabantio, her old suitor Roderigo takes it hard. He allies himself wit...

#5
The Attorney

The Attorney

2013★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Show Must Go On for fans of History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Song Woo-seok is a lawyer with no clients. When his friend's son is falsely accused of a crime and tortured, he takes up the case and the course of his life changes for good....

#6
The Trotsky

The Trotsky

2010★ 6.7

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

Leon Bronstein is not your average Montreal West high school student. For one thing, none of his peers can claim to be the reincarnation of early 20th century Soviet iconoclast and...