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10 Best Movies Like King Lear

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

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#1
Robin Hood: Men in Tights

Robin Hood: Men in Tights

1993★ 6.6

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

Robin Hood comes home after fighting in the Crusades to learn that the noble King Richard is in exile and that the despotic King John now rules England, with the help of the Sherif...

#2
Kick-Ass

Kick-Ass

2010★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to King Lear for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a super-hero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do s...

#3
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

2019★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to King Lear for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of generations behind them, the final ...

#4
Titanic

Titanic

1997★ 7.9

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

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and...

#5
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

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

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....

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Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

2023★ 8.0

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

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II....