Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 10, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Ethel

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

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#1
Maria

Maria

2024★ 6.4

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

Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as she confronts her identity and life....

#2
The Testament of Ann Lee

The Testament of Ann Lee

2025★ 6.5

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

The extraordinary true legend of Ann Lee, founder of the devotional sect known as the Shakers, who preached gender and social equality and was revered by her followers as the femal...

#3
Copying Beethoven

Copying Beethoven

2006★ 6.5

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

A fictionalised exploration of Beethoven's life in his final days working on his Ninth Symphony. It is 1824. Beethoven is racing to finish his new symphony. However, it has been ye...

#4
Radioactive

Radioactive

2020★ 6.6

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

The story of Nobel Prize winner Maria Skłodowska-Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries—through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre—and the seismic and transfor...

#5
Chevalier

Chevalier

2023★ 6.4

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

The illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner, Joseph Bologne rises to improbable heights in French society as a celebrated violinist-composer and fencer, ...

#6
Music of the Heart

Music of the Heart

1999★ 6.7

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

After Roberta Guaspari separates from her husband, she receives encouragement from her mother to take up a job of a music teacher at the Central Park East School in East Harlem....

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