10 Best Movies Like What's a Director?
If you loved What's a Director?, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Van Gogh: Painted with Words
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to What's a Director? for fans of Drama & Documentary. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A drama-documentary presented by Alan Yentob, with Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead role. Every word spoken by the actors in this film is sourced from the letters that Van Gogh sen...

Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to What's a Director? for fans of Drama & Documentary. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Ten Minutes Older is a 2002 film project consisting of two compilation feature films entitled The Trumpet and The Cello. The project was conceived by the producer Nicolas McClintoc...

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to What's a Director? for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devot...

All That Breathes
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to What's a Director? for fans of Drama & Documentary. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Against the darkening backdrop of New Delhi's apocalyptic air and escalating violence, two brothers devote their lives to protecting one casualty of the turbulent times: the bird k...

American Son
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to What's a Director? for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Time passes and tension mounts in a Florida police station as an estranged interracial couple awaits news of their missing teenage son....

A Dry White Season
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to What's a Director? for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody....