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10 Best Movies Like The Unknown Quantity

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

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#1
Return

Return

2011★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Unknown Quantity 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....

#2
Dangerous

Dangerous

1935★ 6.6

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

Don Bellows finds former stage star Joyce Heath a penniless drunk and takes her to his Connecticut home for rehabilitation. He asks his fiancée Gail to free him and offers to spons...

#3
Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey

2007★ 6.8

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

A young woman's penchant for sensational Gothic novels leads to misunderstandings in the matters of the heart....

#4
Won't Back Down

Won't Back Down

2012★ 6.1

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

Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken...

#5
Wormwood

Wormwood

2017★ 6.9

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

In this genre-bending tale, Errol Morris explores the mysterious death of a U.S. scientist entangled in a secret Cold War program known as MK-Ultra....

#6
The Lost Husband

The Lost Husband

2020★ 6.8

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

Trying to put her life back together after the death of her husband, Libby and her children move to her estranged Aunt's goat farm in central Texas....

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