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10 Best Movies Like Ferdinand VIII

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

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#1
Neverwas

Neverwas

2005★ 6.4

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

Zach Riley is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, Millwood. What he doesn't reveal at the time o...

#2
Stonehearst Asylum

Stonehearst Asylum

2014★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ferdinand VIII for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

An Oxford Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying sta...

#3
Defendor

Defendor

2009★ 6.4

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

A crooked cop, a mob boss and the young girl they abuse are the denizens of a city's criminal underworld. It's a world that ordinary Arthur Poppington doesn't understand and doesn'...

#4
Every Breath You Take

Every Breath You Take

2021★ 5.8

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

A psychiatrist, whose client commits suicide, finds his family life disrupted after introducing her surviving brother to his wife and daughter....

#5
Wendell & Wild

Wendell & Wild

2022★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ferdinand VIII for fans of Animation. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Two scheming demons strike a deal with a punk rock-loving teen so they can leave the Underworld and live out their dreams in the Land of the Living....

#6
Vacations in Prostokvashino

Vacations in Prostokvashino

1980★ 7.5

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

The continuation of the adventures of Fyodor and his friends from the Prostokvashino village....

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