If You Liked The Theory of Everything, Watch These Next
Finished The Theory of Everything (2014) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like The Theory of Everything, most of them are drama, romance.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.You're Not You(2014)
7.4DramaAlso drama
When an accomplished pianist is diagnosed with the devastating and incurable disease ALS, she hires a directionless young woman who becomes her full-time caregiver. Complete opposites, the strangers form a life-changing bond inspiring each other to live life to fullest, while being brought together by the most…
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2.The Time Traveler's Wife(2009)
7.0DramaRomanceFantasyAlso drama and romance
Due to a genetic disorder, handsome librarian Henry DeTamble involuntarily zips through time, appearing at various moments in the life of his true love, the beautiful artist Clare Abshire.
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3.Tim(1979)
6.3RomanceDramaAlso romance and drama
Handsome but backward gardener Tim Melville has a new woman in his life. She is Mary, his widowed employer, a woman who had given up on love until she had found Tim. At first they are friends. But soon they become lovers, as Mary, drawn to Tim's innocence and magnetism, begins to teach him all about life - and love.
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4.Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool(2017)
6.3RomanceDramaAlso romance and drama
Liverpool, 1978: What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme-fatale, the eccentric Academy Award-winning actress Gloria Grahame, and her young lover, British actor Peter Turner, quickly grows into a deeper relationship, with Turner being the person Gloria turns to for comfort.
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5.Far from Heaven(2002)
7.1DramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife's life is upended by a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in society.
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6.The Pride of the Yankees(1942)
7.3DramaFamilyAlso drama
The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
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7.Ordinary Love(2019)
6.8DramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
An extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife's breast cancer diagnosis.
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8.Never Let Me Go(2010)
6.8DramaRomanceScience FictionAlso drama and romance
As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy spend their childhood at an idyllic and secluded English boarding school. As they grow into adults, they must come to terms with the complexity and strength of their love for one another while also preparing for the haunting reality awaiting them.
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10.The Bridges of Madison County(1995)
7.7DramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.
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11.Dark Victory(1939)
6.9DramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few joys, and her stable master is secretly in love with her. Told she has a brain tumor by her doctor, Frederick Steele, Judith becomes distraught. After she decides to have surgery to remove the tumor, Judith realizes…
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13.Me Before You(2016)
7.9DramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
Lou Clark, a directionless 26-year-old from the English countryside, takes a job at the local castle as a caregiver and companion to a wealthy young banker, Will Traynor. Wheelchair-bound from an accident two years prior, the once adventurous Will has all but given up — that is until Lou determines to show him that…
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14.Away from Her(2007)
7.0DramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
Fiona and Grant have been married for nearly 50 years. They have to face the fact that Fiona’s absent-mindedness is a symptom of Alzheimer’s disease. She must go to a specialized nursing home, where she slowly forgets Grant and turns her affection to Aubrey, another patient in the home.
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16.A Place in the Sun(1951)
7.3DramaRomanceCrimeAlso drama and romance
A young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy stands in the way of his ambition.
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17.The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry(2023)
6.6DramaAlso drama
Harold Fry is an unremarkable man who has made mistakes with all the important things: being a husband, a father and a friend. And now, well into his 60s, he is content to fade quietly into the background of life. Until, one day – Harold learns his old friend Queenie is dying. Harold leaves home, walking to his post…
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18.Until Forever(2016)
7.6DramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
Until Forever: The Michael Boyum Story is a powerful, true account of one young man's courageous battle with leukemia and his journey of faith.
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19.Phantom Thread(2017)
7.3DramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
In 1950s London, a renowned dressmaker's meticulous lifestyle begins drastically changing as his relationship with his young muse intensifies.
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20.Dying Young(1991)
6.7DramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
After she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her, Hilary O'Neil is looking for a new start and a new job. She begins to work as a private nurse for a young man suffering from blood cancer. Slowly, they fall in love, but they always know their love cannot last because he is destined to die.
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