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Movies Like The Bishop of the Ozarks

If you liked The Bishop of the Ozarks (1923), a drama movie directed by Finis Fox, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Thoughtcrimes

    Thoughtcrimes (2003)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Freya McAllister suddenly starts hearing voices in her head on the night of her High School Prom. One night Dr Michael Welles arrives telling Freya that she isn't crazy but that her voices are the thoughts of everyone…

  2. 2The Beaver

    The Beaver (2011)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    Suffering from a severe case of depression, toy company CEO Walter Black begins using a beaver hand puppet to help him open up to his family. With his father seemingly going insane, adolescent son Porter pushes for his…

  3. 3TalhotBlond

    TalhotBlond (2012)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.

  4. 4Vesper

    Vesper (2022)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    After the collapse of Earth's ecosystem, Vesper, a 13-year-old girl struggling to survive with her paralyzed Father, meets a mysterious Woman with a secret that forces Vesper to use her wits, strength and bio-hacking…

  5. 5Special

    Special (2006)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    A lonely metermaid has a psychotic reaction to his medication and becomes convinced he's a superhero. A very select group of people in life are truly gifted. Special is a movie about everyone else.

  6. 6Normal

    Normal (2003)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.

  7. 7The Zero Theorem

    The Zero Theorem (2013)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    A computer hacker's goal to discover the reason for human existence continually finds his work interrupted thanks to the Management; this time, they send a teenager and lusty love interest to distract him.

  8. 8Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor

    Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor (2013)

    ★ 8/10Also drama

    The Doctor struggles to help the only remaining crewmember of a crashing gunship. The people of the planet below offer to save his life, but at a dear cost to the life he's lived for hundreds of years.

  9. 9Flashbacks of a Fool

    Flashbacks of a Fool (2008)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    An aging Hollywood star, Joe Scott, lives a life of narcissistic hedonism, observed by his laconic personal assistant, Ophelia. The death of his childhood best friend, Boots, takes our protagonist, and the movie, into…

  10. 10Hounddog

    Hounddog (2008)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.

  11. 11Doctor Who: Deep Breath

    Doctor Who: Deep Breath (2014)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama

    The newly-regenerated Doctor arrives in Victorian London, and Clara Oswald struggles to embrace the man he has become. All the while, they reunite with the Paternoster Gang to investigate a series of combustions that…

  12. 12The Trials of Cate McCall

    The Trials of Cate McCall (2013)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.

  13. 13Girl in the Box

    Girl in the Box (2016)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.

  14. 14Head Full of Honey

    Head Full of Honey (2018)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    A young girl tries to help her grandfather, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s, navigate his increasing forgetfulness, and ends up going on a remarkable adventure with him.

  15. 15The Short History of the Long Road

    The Short History of the Long Road (2019)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama

    Nola grew up living in a van with her father, Clint—two nomads against the world. When tragedy strikes, Nola must confront the reality of life on the road alone, learning to own her grief, her past, and her new…

  16. 16The Young One

    The Young One (1960)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.

  17. 17Anna

    Anna (2013)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    A man with the ability to enter peoples' memories takes on the case of a brilliant, troubled sixteen-year-old girl to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of trauma.

  18. 18Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl

    Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl (1998)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even…

  19. 19Bastard Out of Carolina

    Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as…

  20. 20The Giver

    The Giver (2014)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    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 "real" world.

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