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10 Best Movies Like Oscar Wilde

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

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#1
The Happy Prince

The Happy Prince

2018★ 6.2

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

In 1895, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was the most famous writer in London, and Bosie Douglas, son of the notorious Marquess of Queensberry, was his lover. Accused and convicted of gros...

#2
Wilde

Wilde

1997★ 6.6

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

Oscar Wilde is a married playwright who has occasionally indulged his weakness for male suitors. After much toil, Wilde debuts 'The Importance of Being Earnest' in London, and a ch...

#3
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon

Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon

1998★ 6.0

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

In the 1960s, British painter Francis Bacon surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed. The burglar, a working class man named George Dyer, accepts. After the unique begi...

#4
Prick Up Your Ears

Prick Up Your Ears

1987★ 6.7

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

When the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at drama school, he befriends the kindred spirit and they start an affair. As Orton becomes...

#5
Victoria & Abdul

Victoria & Abdul

2017★ 6.9

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

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

#6
Sunday Bloody Sunday

Sunday Bloody Sunday

1971★ 6.6

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

Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doc...

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