Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 11, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Maktub

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

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#1
Palindromes

Palindromes

2005★ 6.2

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

Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve, a regular guy who does have a fierce temper from time to time. The film revo...

#2
Family Weekend

Family Weekend

2013★ 6.3

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

A 16-year-old girl takes her parents hostage after they miss her big jump-roping competition....

#3
S.F.W.

S.F.W.

1995★ 6.0

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

An alienated and misanthropic teenager gains sudden and unwanted celebrity status after he's taken hostage by terrorists where his indifference to their threats to kill him makes n...

#4
Pixie

Pixie

2020★ 5.8

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

To avenge her mother's death, Pixie masterminds a heist but must flee across Ireland from gangsters, take on the patriarchy, and choose her own destiny....

#5
Cleveland Abduction

Cleveland Abduction

2015★ 7.2

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

A single mother becomes Ariel Castro's first kidnapping victim, and finds herself trapped in his home with two other women for 11 years....

#6
The Legend of Barney Thomson

The Legend of Barney Thomson

2015★ 6.1

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

Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity and his uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the gr...

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