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10 Best Movies Like Wise Blood

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

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#1
Mystery Train

Mystery Train

1989★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Wise Blood for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

In Memphis, Tennessee, over the course of a single night, the Arcade Hotel, run by an eccentric night clerk and a clueless bellboy, is visited by a young Japanese couple traveling ...

#2
Popeye

Popeye

1980★ 5.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Wise Blood for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Popeye is a super-strong, spinach-scarfing sailor man who's searching for his father. During a storm that wrecks his ship, Popeye washes ashore and winds up rooming at the Oyl hous...

#3
Brick

Brick

2006★ 6.8

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

A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend....

#4
Walker

Walker

1987★ 6.4

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

William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat....

#5
Yellow Earth

Yellow Earth

1984★ 7.2

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

A communist soldier is sent to a remote region of China in order to collect folk songs. Staying with a peasant family (a widower with two small children), he discovers a community ...

#6
Whistle and I'll Come to You

Whistle and I'll Come to You

1968★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Wise Blood for fans of TV Movie. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A university professor, confident that everything which occurs in life has a rational explanation, finds his beliefs severely challenged when, during a vacation to a remote coastal...