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10 Best Movies Like Chestnut

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

#1
J.T. LeRoy

J.T. LeRoy

2019★ 5.4

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

A young woman named Savannah Knoop spends six years pretending to be a transgender writer named JT Leroy, the made-up literary persona of her sister-in-law....

#2
Uranus 2324

Uranus 2324

2024★ 7.4

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

Bonded in their youth and separated by tragedy, an astronaut and a free diver bend the laws of space and time in their efforts to be together again....

#3
Just out of Frame

Just out of Frame

2021★ 7.0

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

Elizabeth returns from her 3rd year of college to find a letter addressed to her. Hesitantly, she opens the envelope and finds herself reminiscing back to three summers ago, when a...

#4
Garfield

Garfield

2004★ 5.7

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

Garfield, the fat, lazy, lasagna lover, has everything a cat could want. But when Jon, in an effort to impress the Liz - the vet and an old high-school crush - adopts a dog named O...

#5
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

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

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....

#6
Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

2023★ 8.0

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

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II....