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
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

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

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

#2
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

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

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell....

#3
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020★ 6.2

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

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....

#4
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#5
Adopt a Highway

Adopt a Highway

2019★ 6.7

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

Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a 3rd strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn’t...

#6
Jonathan

Jonathan

2018★ 5.9

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

Jonathan is a young man with a strange condition that only his brother understands. But when he begins to yearn for a different life, their unique bond becomes increasingly tested...

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