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10 Best Movies Like The Man Who Loves

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

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#1
Enea

Enea

2024★ 6.2

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

Enea chases after the myth he bears in his name; he does so to feel alive in a dead and decadent age. He does so together with Valentino, a newly baptized aviator. The two, in addi...

#2
Here

Here

2024★ 6.5

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

An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between cou...

#3
Boy Erased

Boy Erased

2018★ 7.0

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

Jared, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, is outed to his parents at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a gay conversion therapy program – or be pe...

#4
Helen

Helen

2009★ 6.5

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

On the outside, Helen has it all – a loving family and a successful career – but when her suppressed mental illness resurfaces, the world crumbles around her. Crippled by depressio...

#5
The Other Woman

The Other Woman

2010★ 6.2

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

Emilia, a law-school graduate, falls in love with her married boss, Jack. After Emilia marries Jack, her happiness turns unexpectedly to grief following the death of her infant dau...

#6
The Giver

The Giver

2014★ 6.6

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

In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "r...

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