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10 Best Movies Like Ward Six

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

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#1
Neverwas

Neverwas

2005★ 6.4

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

Zach Riley is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, Millwood. What he doesn't reveal at the time o...

#2
The Professor and the Madman

The Professor and the Madman

2019★ 7.1

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

Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient a...

#3
Girl, Interrupted

Girl, Interrupted

1999★ 7.6

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

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wond...

#4
Shutter Island

Shutter Island

2010★ 8.2

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

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by tro...

#5
25th Hour

25th Hour

2002★ 7.3

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

On the eve of a seven-year prison sentence, a New York drug dealer spends his final day of freedom confronting his past, his relationships, and the choices that led to his downfall...

#6
Shadows in the Sun

Shadows in the Sun

2005★ 6.2

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

An aspiring young writer tracks a literary titan suffering from writers block to his refuge in rural Italy and learns about life and love from the irascible genius and his daughter...

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