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10 Best Movies Like The Theory of Flight

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

#1
Australia

Australia

2008★ 6.6

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

Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a t...

#2
Stepmom

Stepmom

1998★ 7.2

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

Jackie is a divorced mother of two. Isabel is the career minded girlfriend of Jackie’s ex-husband Luke, forced into the role of unwelcome stepmother to their children. But when Jac...

#3
Burn!

Burn!

1969★ 6.8

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

The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Queimada in order to help improve the British sugar trade. Years later he is sent...

#4
Titanic

Titanic

1997★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Theory of Flight for fans of Drama & Romance. 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...

#5
Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

2023★ 8.0

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

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II....

#6
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Theory of Flight 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....