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10 Best Movies Like Recovery

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

#1
Opening Night

Opening Night

1977★ 7.6

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

Actress Myrtle Gordon is a functioning alcoholic who is a few days from the opening night of her latest play, concerning a woman distraught about aging. One night a car kills one o...

#2
Rent

Rent

2019★ 6.7

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

The story of several friends in New York City facing financial poverty, homophobia, AIDS, and, of course, rent....

#3
Silver Linings Playbook

Silver Linings Playbook

2012★ 7.1

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

After losing his job and wife, and spending time in an institution, a former teacher winds up living with his parents. He wants to rebuild his life and reconcile with his wife, but...

#4
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Recovery for fans of Crime. 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....

#5
Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

2023★ 8.0

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

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II....

#6
Titanic

Titanic

1997★ 7.9

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