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10 Best Movies Like Ballerina

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

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#1
Finally Dawn

Finally Dawn

2024★ 6.1

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

A young Roman woman during the 1950s is on the verge of becoming engaged to a man. She goes to Cinecittà to do an audition as an extra and is thrust into this almost infinite night...

#2
Paprika

Paprika

1991★ 7.1

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

In 1957 Trieste, a few months before the general ban on brothels, inexperienced country girl Mimma becomes Paprika to finance her useless boyfriend as a prostitute. Amid the hustle...

#3
The Unknown Woman

The Unknown Woman

2006★ 7.2

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

A Ukrainian woman named Irena calculatedly insinuates herself into the lives of a young, affluent Italian family. Stopping at nothing to become the couple's trusted maid and the be...

#4
Malena

Malena

2000★ 7.4

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

12-year-old Renato experiences three significant events on the same day: the beginning of the Second World War, getting a bike, and witnessing the arrival of the gorgeous Malèna. T...

#5
Le Notti Bianche

Le Notti Bianche

1957★ 7.4

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

A middle-aged man meets a young woman who is waiting on a canal bridge for her lover's return....

#6
Don't Be Bad

Don't Be Bad

2015★ 7.8

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

A story set in the 90s and in the outskirts of Rome to Ostia. A world where money, luxury cars, night clubs, cocaine and synthetic drugs are easy to run. A world in which Vittorio ...

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