10 Best Movies Like Brain on Fire
If you loved Brain on Fire, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.
Awakenings
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Brain on Fire for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversia...
Fathers and Daughters
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Brain on Fire for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own....
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Brain on Fire for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story is a movie based on the life story of world-renowned neurosurgeon Ben Carson from 1961 to 1987....
Richard Jewell
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Brain on Fire for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, onl...
Helen
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Brain on Fire for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
On the outside, Helen has it all – a loving family and a successful career – but when her suppressed mental illness resurfaces, the world crumbles around her. Crippled by depressio...
Erin Brockovich
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Brain on Fire for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work for an attorney and comes across...