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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
My Dinner with Hervé

My Dinner with Hervé

2018★ 6.3

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

An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-toting dwarf, resulting in life-ch...

#2
King Lear

King Lear

2018★ 6.1

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

An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one....

#3
TalhotBlond

TalhotBlond

2012★ 6.3

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

Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately lead...

#4
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

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

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site ...

#5
Normal

Normal

2003★ 6.7

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

A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation....

#6
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

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

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell....

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