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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
Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays

2025★ 6.7

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

Rami deals with his Jewish girlfriend’s opposition to abortion. His mother complicates things while seeking compensation for her daughter Fifi accident. Miri plans to terminate her...

#2
Gold

Gold

2013★ 5.8

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

Canada, the summer of 1898. A group of German settlers travel towards the far north in covered wagons with packhorses and their few possessions in tow. The seven travellers set off...

#3
Gwen

Gwen

2018★ 5.4

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

A mysterious — and suspicious — run of ill fortune plagues a teenage girl and her mother and sister on their hillside farm in this folk story set in the dark hills of Wales during ...

#4
Die Bettwurst

Die Bettwurst

1971★ 5.0

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

It is love at first sight: elderly secretary Luzi and young, unemployed Dietmar find each other by accident in Rosa von Praunheim’s outrageous genre, social satire....

#5
Play

Play

2005★ 5.5

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

A couple search for love but never quite seem to meet....

#6
A Mother's Sonata

A Mother's Sonata

2020★ 3.4

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

It’s just another weird and ordinary day for Nesrin and her mother. As the evening comes, they face the same issues they face everyday again but the next day their ordinary flow of...