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10 Best Movies Like Ludwig II

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

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#1
The Audrey Hepburn Story

The Audrey Hepburn Story

2000★ 6.0

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

The film spans from Hepburn's early childhood to the 1950s which details her life as a Dutch ballerina, coming to grips with her parents' divorce, and enduring life in the Nazi-occ...

#2
My Dinner with Hervé

My Dinner with Hervé

2018★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ludwig II for fans of Drama. 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...

#3
Flash of Genius

Flash of Genius

2008★ 6.6

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

In this David vs. Goliath drama based on a true story, college professor Robert Kearns goes up against the giants of the auto industry when they fail to give him credit for inventi...

#4
Richard Jewell

Richard Jewell

2019★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ludwig II for fans of History & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, onl...

#5
Victoria & Abdul

Victoria & Abdul

2017★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ludwig II for fans of History & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim....

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The Scarlet and the Black

The Scarlet and the Black

1983★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ludwig II for fans of History & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large th...

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