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10 Best Movies Like Barbara

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

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#1
Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything

Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything

2023★ 5.8

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

Set in a warm summer in 1990 in former East Germany, it follows a young woman who begins a relationship with a charismatic farmer who is twice her age....

#2
The Lives of Others

The Lives of Others

2006★ 8.0

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

In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes unexpectedly sympathetic to the ...

#3
Free Country

Free Country

2020★ 6.2

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

Former East Germany, 1992. Patrick Stein and Markus Bach, two very different police officers, are commissioned to investigate the disappearance of two female teenagers in a remote ...

#4
The German Lesson

The German Lesson

2019★ 6.5

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

In a small North German village a drama played out during and shortly after the Second World War about duty versus individual conscience and morality....

#5
My Neighbor Adolf

My Neighbor Adolf

2022★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Barbara 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...

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The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

1974★ 7.3

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

The film follows Kaspar Hauser, who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact excep...

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