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10 Best Movies Like The Thief and the Fool

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

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#1
The Man Without a Past

The Man Without a Past

2002★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Thief and the Fool for fans of Drama & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Arriving in Helsinki, a nameless man is beaten within an inch of his life by thugs, miraculously recovering only to find that he has completely lost his memory. Back on the streets...

#2
Panda

Panda

2014★ 6.5

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

Two teenagers are playing by night in a dirty parking lot. After they are driving on an empty road, they start to tease each other on the way to the sea, but they seem to be too yo...

#3
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony

Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony

2021★ 4.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Thief and the Fool for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Hopkins’ career has spanned several decades, which is why we will also use many interviews that he gave throughout his life, allowing us to put him back into the context of each pe...

#4
Boy

Boy

2004★ 5.7

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

Boy is the unsettling story of a young male prostitute, or Rent Boy, in a small rural town who learns the truth behind a hit and run accident which has killed a local girl. When th...

#5
Indovina chi viene a Natale?

Indovina chi viene a Natale?

2013★ 5.6

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

A very extended family gathers for the Christmas holidays, after the death of the breadwinner Leonardo Sereni, famous singer. The eldest son Julius, with his wife Marina, has a pan...

#6
Buddies

Buddies

1985★ 8.2

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

David, a naive graduate student, has volunteered to work as a 'buddy' for people dying of AIDS. Assigned to the intensely political Robert, a lifelong activist whose friends and fa...