Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 18, 2026

10 Best Movies Like And Have to Have Why?

If you loved And Have to Have Why?, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

🏆

Expert Review & Ratings

See our full critical analysis and audience score for And Have to Have Why?.

View Review →
Advertisement
#1
Van Gogh: Painted with Words

Van Gogh: Painted with Words

2010★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to And Have to Have Why? 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...

#2
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

2002★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to And Have to Have Why? 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...

#3
Nine Days

Nine Days

2021★ 6.8

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

A bureaucrat interviews five souls to decide which of them will be given a life on Earth. But he soon faces an existential challenge of his own....

#4
In Full Bloom

In Full Bloom

2019★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to And Have to Have Why? for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Set shortly after the end of World War II, a philosophical boxing drama of two fighters from opposite worlds (USA and Japan) who are pulled together for a questionable fight arrang...

#5
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

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

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site ...

#6
A Dry White Season

A Dry White Season

1989★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to And Have to Have Why? 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....

Advertisement