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10 Best Movies Like King for a Day

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

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#1
Six Men Getting Sick

Six Men Getting Sick

1967★ 5.5

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

Lynch's first film project consists of a loop of six people vomiting projected on to a special sculptured screen featuring twisted three-dimensional faces....

#2
Bad Education

Bad Education

2004★ 7.4

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

When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded a semi-autobiographical script chronicling their adolescence, Enrique is forced to relive his youth spent at a Catholic boarding s...

#3
Metropolis

Metropolis

1927★ 8.1

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

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their difference...

#4
The Phantom of Liberty

The Phantom of Liberty

1974★ 7.4

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

This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, ...

#5
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice

The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice

1952★ 7.6

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

The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet and rustic man is tested by a marital crisis....

#6
Female Urologists 3

Female Urologists 3

2020★ 5.2

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

Haeil, wounded by his wife's words of 'premature ejaculation', goes to a urology department. But because the doctor is a woman, she is so surprised and embarrassed that she tries t...