Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 18, 2026

10 Best Movies Like As It Was

If you loved As It Was, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Ashes in the Snow

Ashes in the Snow

2018★ 6.4

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

The coming-of-age tale of 16-year-old Lina Vilkas who is deported to Siberia amid Stalin's reign of terror in the Baltic region during WWII. An aspiring artist, she secretly docume...

#2
The Kindness of Strangers

The Kindness of Strangers

2019★ 6.3

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

Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who get...

#3
My Neighbor Adolf

My Neighbor Adolf

2022★ 6.5

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

South America, 1960. A lonely and grumpy Holocaust survivor convinces himself that his new neighbor is none other than Adolf Hitler. Not being taken seriously, he starts an indepen...

#4
Electricity

Electricity

2014★ 5.8

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

A woman leaves her seaside hometown to search for her long-lost brother, experiencing hallucinations brought on by her epilepsy during her trip....

#5
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020★ 6.2

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

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....

#6
Alone in Berlin

Alone in Berlin

2016★ 6.7

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

Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’...

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