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10 Best Movies Like The Illustrated Mum

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

#1
Changeling

Changeling

2008★ 7.6

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

Los Angeles, 1928. When single mother Christine Collins leaves for work, her son vanishes without a trace. Five months later, the police reunite mother and son. But when Christine ...

#2
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Illustrated Mum for fans of Drama. 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....

#3
Titanic

Titanic

1997★ 7.9

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

#4
Shutter Island

Shutter Island

2010★ 8.2

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

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by tro...

#5
The Truman Show

The Truman Show

1998★ 8.1

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

An insurance salesman begins to suspect that his whole life is actually some sort of reality TV show....

#6
The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption

1994★ 8.7

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