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10 Best Movies Like The Kite Runner

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

#1
Reign Over Me

Reign Over Me

2007★ 7.2

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

A man who lost his family in the September 11 attack on New York City runs into his old college roommate. Rekindling the friendship is the one thing that appears able to help the m...

#2
The Killing Room

The Killing Room

2009★ 5.7

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

Four volunteers sign up for what initially appears to be a typical paid research study, only to discover that they've unwittingly become involved with a classified government progr...

#3
Séraphine

Séraphine

2008★ 6.7

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

The tragic story of French naïve painter Séraphine Louis aka Séraphine de Senlis (1864-1942), a humble servant who becomes a gifted self-taught painter. Discovered by prominent cri...

#4
The Rebel

The Rebel

2007★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Kite Runner for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

In French ruled Vietnam in 1922, the French and Vietnamese officers plot to sniff out arch-rebel De Canh....

#5
Breaking and Entering

Breaking and Entering

2006★ 6.0

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

Set in a blighted, inner-city neighbourhood of London, Breaking and Entering examines an affair which unfolds between a successful British landscape architect and Amira, a Bosnian ...

#6
My Lovely Angel

My Lovely Angel

2021★ 7.8

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

A life-changing story of a man who has lived as a loner his entire life. Jae Shik begins to live together with a child with a hearing-visual disability, as they change each other's...