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10 Best Movies Like The Headmaster

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

#1
Sleepless Nights

Sleepless Nights

2003★ 6.5

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

A social romance that portrays the lives of 4 married couples who are friends. As they gather to celebrate the birthday of the daughter of one of them, their fundamental difference...

#2
Ghosts of Mississippi

Ghosts of Mississippi

1996★ 6.6

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

A Mississippi district attorney and the widow of Medgar Evers struggle to bring a white supremacist to justice for the 1963 murder of the civil rights leader....

#3
Nostalgia for the Light

Nostalgia for the Light

2010★ 7.4

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

In Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers peer deep into the cosmos in search for answers concerning the origins of life. Nearby, a group of women sift through the sand searching for ...

#4
No Retreat, No Surrender

No Retreat, No Surrender

2010★ 6.8

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

In a top secret mission to bring down a dangerous drug lord, the police recruit Hazaloum to impersonate his right hand man Adham after he is killed....

#5
Two Girls from Egypt

Two Girls from Egypt

2010★ 5.4

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

The struggle of two women who face many events and the psychological and sociological aspects of being unmarried yet of marrying age in the context of an Eastern society where wome...

#6
The Mother of the Bride

The Mother of the Bride

1963★ 6.6

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

This magnificently madcap comedy classic stars Egyptian film legends Tahiya Karioka and Emad Hamdi as Zeinab and Hussein, overworked parents who get little relief from the never en...