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10 Best Movies Like Dead Poets Society

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

#1
Good Will Hunting

Good Will Hunting

1997★ 8.2

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

Headstrong yet aimless, Will Hunting has a genius-level IQ but chooses to work as a janitor at MIT. When he secretly solves highly difficult graduate-level math problems, his talen...

#2
Patch Adams

Patch Adams

1998★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dead Poets Society for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

The true story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, who in the 1970s found that humor is the best medicine, and was willing to do just anything to make his patients laugh—even if it meant ...

#3
The Truman Show

The Truman Show

1998★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dead Poets Society for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

An insurance salesman begins to suspect that his whole life is actually some sort of reality TV show....

#4
Gandhi

Gandhi

1982★ 7.6

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

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed...

#5
A Beautiful Mind

A Beautiful Mind

2001★ 7.9

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

From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash Jr. experiences it all. As a brilliant but socially awkward mathematician, he made a groundbreaking disco...

#6
Léon: The Professional

Léon: The Professional

1994★ 8.3

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

Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling ...