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10 Best Movies Like A Personal Affair

If you loved A Personal Affair, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Return

Return

2011★ 6.4

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

Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes....

#2
Mother

Mother

1926★ 7.1

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

A Soviet woman is caught between her husband and son, who find themselves on opposing sides of the Russian Revolution....

#3
My Friend Ivan Lapshin

My Friend Ivan Lapshin

1985★ 6.7

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

Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well....

#4
Better Start Running

Better Start Running

2018★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Personal Affair for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

An eclectic band of misfits becomes an unlikely family as they take a wild journey in the name of love while on the run from an overzealous FBI duo who want them dead or alive - pr...

#5
My Joy

My Joy

2010★ 6.3

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

Georgy is driving a load of freight into Russia when, after an unpleasant encounter with the police at a border crossing, he finds himself giving a lift to a strange old man with d...

#6
The Conquest of Siberia

The Conquest of Siberia

2019★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Personal Affair for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Ivan Demarin, a young officer of Peter the First’s new guards, follows the Tsar’s order and goes to the frontier town of Tobolsk, deep in the Siberian forest. There Ivan falls in l...

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