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10 Best Movies Like The Burden

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

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#1
The House

The House

2022★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Burden for fans of Animation. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Across different eras, a poor family, an anxious developer and a fed-up landlady become tied to the same mysterious house in this animated dark comedy....

#2
Negative Space

Negative Space

2017★ 7.4

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

Even though Sam's father is hardly ever home because he is often away on business trips, he is able to connect with his son by teaching him how to pack a suitcase....

#3
Arekara - The Life After

Arekara - The Life After

2013★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Burden for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

In February 2012, I went to Ishinomaki, a town North of Tokyo that was half destroyed by the tsunami of March 11th, 2011, to meet the disaster victims who now live in temporary hou...

#4
Sinners

Sinners

2025★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Burden for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back....

#5
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Burden 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....

#6
Titanic

Titanic

1997★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Burden 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...