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10 Best Movies Like Maladies

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

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#1
After the Dark

After the Dark

2013★ 6.0

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

At an international school in Jakarta, a philosophy teacher challenges his class of twenty graduating seniors to choose which ten of them would take shelter underground and reboot ...

#2
Welcome Mr. President!

Welcome Mr. President!

2013★ 6.2

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

In a small mountain village lives a man with a challenging name, Giuseppe Garibaldi (one of Italy's "fathers of the fatherland"), but everybody call him with the nickname Peppino. ...

#3
Narco Cultura

Narco Cultura

2013★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Maladies for fans of Crime. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

To a growing number of Mexicans and Latinos in the Americas, narco-traffickers have become iconic outlaws and the new models of fame and success. They represent a pathway out of th...

#4
Titanic

Titanic

1997★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Maladies 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
Shutter Island

Shutter Island

2010★ 8.2

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

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by tro...

#6
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Maladies 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....