Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Jan 21, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Ava

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

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#1
The Wild Pear Tree

The Wild Pear Tree

2018★ 7.5

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

Fresh out of university, a Turkish young man with literary aspirations returns to his home village and starts scraping together money to publish his book. While trying to reconnect...

#2
The Last Family

The Last Family

2016★ 7.1

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

Beksiński is a gentle man with arachnophobia, despite his hardcore sexual fantasies and his fondness for painting disturbing dystopian works. Beksiński is a family man who wants on...

#3
Mary & Myself

Mary & Myself

2013★ 5.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ava for fans of Animation. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

This short animated documentary tells the story of 2 Chinese Canadian women making their theatrical debut playing “comfort women” in Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues. Jia Tsu Tho...

#4
Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

2023★ 8.0

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

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II....

#5
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

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

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....

#6
12 Angry Men

12 Angry Men

1957★ 8.6

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

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begi...