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Movies Like The Strange Affliction of Anton Bruckner

If you liked The Strange Affliction of Anton Bruckner (1990), a tv movie and drama movie directed by Ken Russell, 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. 1My Dinner with Hervé

    My Dinner with Hervé (2018)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and tv movie

    An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-toting dwarf, resulting in life-changing consequences for both.

  2. 2The Current War

    The Current War (2018)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.

  3. 3The Sound of Silence

    The Sound of Silence (2019)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    A successful "house tuner" in New York City, who calibrates the sound in people's homes in order to adjust their moods, meets a client with a problem he can't solve.

  4. 4Effie Gray

    Effie Gray (2014)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.

  5. 5Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B

    Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B (2014)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and tv movie

    The story of R&B singer and actress Aaliyah; namely, the highs and lows of her career, her romantic pursuits, and the events leading up to her death in 2001 at the age of 22.

  6. 6Pi

    Pi (1998)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict the future.

  7. 7Normal

    Normal (2003)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and tv movie

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

  8. 8Girl in the Box

    Girl in the Box (2016)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and tv movie

    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.

  9. 9Tuesdays with Morrie

    Tuesdays with Morrie (1999)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama and tv movie

    A journalist finds himself questioning his own life when his best friend, a dying man, offers him some very powerful wisdom and advice for coping in relationships, careers and society.

  10. 10Eleanor the Great

    Eleanor the Great (2025)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.

  11. 11The Experiment

    The Experiment (2010)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.

  12. 12Cocaine Godmother

    Cocaine Godmother (2017)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama and tv movie

    At the age of 17, Griselda Blanco, made her way to the U.S. with a fake passport with her first husband Carlos. Living in Queens with her three sons, Griselda became enticed by the money the drug world offered, and…

  13. 13Spellbound

    Spellbound (1945)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the…

  14. 14A Bramble House Christmas

    A Bramble House Christmas (2017)

    ★ 6.4/10Also tv movie and drama

    While settling his father’s estate, Finn Conrad becomes suspicious as to why the man left a nurse $100,000. His dad knew her for less than two months before he died. Just before Christmas, Finn wants what to reclaim…

  15. 15Cheaters

    Cheaters (2000)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and tv movie

    In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition.

  16. 16Copying Beethoven

    Copying Beethoven (2006)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Serving as Ludwig van Beethoven's copyist gives a conservatory student access to the composer's musical genius, but also exposes her to his cruelty.

  17. 17The Audrey Hepburn Story

    The Audrey Hepburn Story (2000)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama and tv movie

    The film spans from Hepburn's early childhood to the 1950s which details her life as a Dutch ballerina, coming to grips with her parents' divorce, and enduring life in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II…

  18. 18The Most Hated Woman in America

    The Most Hated Woman in America (2017)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    The true story of Madalyn Murray O'Hair -- iconoclast, opportunist, and outspoken atheist -- from her controversial rise to her untimely demise.

  19. 19Elvis

    Elvis (1979)

    ★ 6.9/10Also tv movie and drama

    This biopic traces Elvis Presley’s life from his impoverished childhood to his meteoric rise to stardom to his triumphant conquering of Las Vegas.

  20. 20The 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.

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