Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 10, 2026

10 Best Movies Like The Idiot

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

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#1
Doctor Zhivago

Doctor Zhivago

1965★ 7.6

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

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the O...

#2
Floating Clouds

Floating Clouds

1955★ 7.7

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

A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she t...

#3
Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina

1997★ 6.1

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

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attrac...

#4
Persuasion

Persuasion

2007★ 7.2

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

Anne Elliot was once in love with Frederick Wentworth, a commander in the Royal Navy who was rejected by her snobby parents eight years ago. When the family hits hard times and are...

#5
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

2021★ 7.2

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

An unexpected love triangle, a seduction trap, and a random encounter are the three episodes, told in three movements to depict three female characters and trace the trajectories b...

#6
Earthquake Bird

Earthquake Bird

2019★ 5.9

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

Tokyo, Japan, 1989. Lucy Fly, a foreigner who works as a translator, begins a passionate relationship with Teiji, a mysterious man obsessed with photography....

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