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10 Best Movies Like Maniac

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

#1
Waking Life

Waking Life

2001★ 7.5

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

Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussio...

#2
Fear and Desire

Fear and Desire

1953★ 5.4

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

After their airplane crashes behind enemy lines, four soldiers must survive and try to find a way back to their battalion. However, when they come across a local peasant girl the h...

#3
Dracula's Daughter

Dracula's Daughter

1936★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Maniac for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings....

#4
Baby Blue

Baby Blue

2025★ 5.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Maniac for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A group of teens stumble across the story of now dead serial killer Baby Blue and decide he'd be the perfect subject of a true crime vodcast. But when they start digging, they quic...

#5
Pulp Fiction

Pulp Fiction

1994★ 8.5

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

A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in ...

#6
The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption

1994★ 8.7

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

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting ski...