10 Best Movies Like Operating Instructions
If you loved Operating Instructions, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Operating Instructions for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
At the turn of the 19th century, Pugilism was the sport of kings and a gifted young boxer fought his way to becoming champion of England....

Heaven
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Operating Instructions for fans of TV Movie & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Heaven Leigh Casteel, gifted and intelligent, is the eldest of five dirt-poor children struggling to survive in a mountain shack. As she endures neglect and abuse, Heaven discovers...

My Dinner with Hervé
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Operating Instructions for fans of TV Movie & 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...

Girl in the Box
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Operating Instructions for fans of TV Movie & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as ...

A Bramble House Christmas
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Operating Instructions for fans of TV Movie & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
While settling his father’s estate, Finn Conrad becomes suspicious as to why the man left a nurse $100,000. His dad knew her for less than two months before he died. Just before Ch...

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Operating Instructions for fans of TV Movie & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s....