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10 Best Movies Like Barnum

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

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#1
The Greatest Showman

The Greatest Showman

2017★ 7.9

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

The story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus....

#2
Something Wicked This Way Comes

Something Wicked This Way Comes

1983★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Barnum for fans of Fantasy. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

In a small American town, a diabolical circus arrives, granting wishes for the townsfolk, but twisted as only the esteemed Mr. Dark can make them. Can two young boys overcome the w...

#3
Big Fish

Big Fish

2003★ 7.8

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

Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, t...

#4
My Dinner with Hervé

My Dinner with Hervé

2018★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Barnum for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-toting dwarf, resulting in life-ch...

#5
The Audrey Hepburn Story

The Audrey Hepburn Story

2000★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Barnum for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The film spans from Hepburn's early childhood to the 1950s which details her life as a Dutch ballerina, coming to grips with her parents' divorce, and enduring life in the Nazi-occ...

#6
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

1972★ 6.2

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

In a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, a chimpanzee named Caesar resurfaces after almost twenty years of hiding from the authorities, and prepares for a revolt agains...

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