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10 Best Movies Like A Simple Heart

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

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#1
Le Amiche

Le Amiche

1955★ 6.7

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

Clelia, a self-made woman coming from humble means, travels back to Turin, her hometown, to scout locations for the successful Roman atelier she works for. At the hotel, she encoun...

#2
Salomé

Salomé

2013★ 6.2

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

After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his k...

#3
Désirée

Désirée

1954★ 6.5

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

In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding General Jean-Baptiste Berandotte, an aid to ...

#4
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

1972★ 7.3

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

Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea ro...

#5
Paulie

Paulie

1998★ 6.9

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

Paulie, a talking parrot, recounts his travels looking for his original owner to a Russian janitor who helps him to the end of his journey....

#6
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

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