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10 Best Movies Like Self

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

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#1
Neverwas

Neverwas

2005★ 6.4

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

Zach Riley is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, Millwood. What he doesn't reveal at the time o...

#2
Mango Yellow

Mango Yellow

2002★ 6.6

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

The lives of a macho butcher, his wife, a lonely waitress, a sadist and a flophouse manager intersect in Recife, Brazil....

#3
The Truth About Emanuel

The Truth About Emanuel

2013★ 6.0

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

A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother....

#4
The Nest

The Nest

2020★ 6.1

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

Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of the...

#5
Casa Grande

Casa Grande

2014★ 6.8

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

As a privileged teenager living in an affluent suburb of Rio de Janeiro, Jean has little to worry about beyond games, grades and girls. But as his overbearing father drags the fami...

#6
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

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

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of gettin...

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