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10 Best Movies Like Through a Glass Darkly

If you loved Through a Glass Darkly, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Fathers and Daughters

Fathers and Daughters

2015★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Through a Glass Darkly for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own....

#2
War of the Worlds

War of the Worlds

2005★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Through a Glass Darkly for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, ...

#3
Freud: The Secret Passion

Freud: The Secret Passion

1962★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Through a Glass Darkly for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An examination of Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud's career when he began to treat patients diagnosed with hysteria, using the radical technique of hypnosis....

#4
Brain on Fire

Brain on Fire

2017★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Through a Glass Darkly for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Susannah Cahalan, an up-and-coming journalist at the New York Post becomes plagued by voices in her head and seizures, causing a rapid descent into insanity....

#5
Helen

Helen

2009★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Through a Glass Darkly 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...

#6
Jack of the Red Hearts

Jack of the Red Hearts

2016★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Through a Glass Darkly for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A teenage con artist tricks a desperate mother into hiring her as a live-in companion for her autistic daughter....

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