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10 Best Movies Like The Battle Over Citizen Kane

If you loved The Battle Over Citizen Kane, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

#1
Bicycle Thieves

Bicycle Thieves

1948★ 8.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Battle Over Citizen Kane for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen. His job is do...

#2
Synecdoche, New York

Synecdoche, New York

2008★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Battle Over Citizen Kane for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play....

#3
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

2020★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Battle Over Citizen Kane for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

14 years after making a film about his journey across the USA, Borat risks life and limb when he returns to the United States with his young daughter, and reveals more about the cu...

#4
Pulp Fiction

Pulp Fiction

1994★ 8.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Battle Over Citizen Kane 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 ...

#5
The Godfather

The Godfather

1972★ 8.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Battle Over Citizen Kane for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attemp...

#6
The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption

1994★ 8.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Battle Over Citizen Kane 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...