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10 Best Movies Like Everything Is Illuminated

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

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#1
Around the Bend

Around the Bend

2004★ 5.9

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

A tale of four generations of men, all of whom have had their offspring at a young age: a great-grandfather, a grandfather, a father in his twenties and a son who is about 7 years ...

#2
The Family Fang

The Family Fang

2016★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Everything Is Illuminated for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A brother and sister return to their family home in search of their world famous parents who have disappeared....

#3
Uncle Frank

Uncle Frank

2020★ 7.3

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

In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina for the family patriarch's funeral, they're unexpectedly jo...

#4
Mr. Jones

Mr. Jones

2019★ 6.7

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

In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet secret service who are d...

#5
Igby Goes Down

Igby Goes Down

2002★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Everything Is Illuminated for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic 17-year-old boy, is at war with the stifling world of old money privilege he was born into. With a schizophrenic father, a self-absorbed, d...

#6
The Song of Names

The Song of Names

2019★ 6.7

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

A man searches for his childhood best friend, a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust, who vanished decades before on the night of his first public performance....

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