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10 Best Movies Like The Slump Is Over

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

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#1
Maudie

Maudie

2016★ 7.7

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

Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis falls in love with a fishmonger while working for him as a live-in housekeeper....

#2
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

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

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of gettin...

#3
Noises Off...

Noises Off...

1992★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Slump Is Over for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Hired to helm an Americanized take on a British play, director Lloyd Fellowes does his best to control an eccentric group of stage actors. With a star actress quickly passing her p...

#4
Mr. Turner

Mr. Turner

2014★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Slump Is Over for fans of History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequite...

#5
Meantime

Meantime

1983★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Slump Is Over for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A working-class family in London's East End is struggling to stay afloat during the recession under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's premiership. Only the mother Mavis is working...

#6
King Lear

King Lear

2018★ 6.1

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

An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one....

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