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10 Best Movies Like Bent

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

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#1
Kiss of the Spider Woman

Kiss of the Spider Woman

1985★ 7.0

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

The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Valentin, a journalist being tortured for his political beliefs. The other is Molin...

#2
Where Hands Touch

Where Hands Touch

2018★ 7.9

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

Germany, 1944. Leyna, the 15-year old daughter of a white German mother and a black African father, meets Lutz, a compassionate member of the Hitler Youth whose father is a promine...

#3
Cabaret

Cabaret

1972★ 7.4

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

Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows in...

#4
Apt Pupil

Apt Pupil

1998★ 6.5

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

One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an old man whose appearance resembles that of Kurt Dussander, a wante...

#5
The World Will Tremble

The World Will Tremble

2025★ 7.5

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

The incredible, untold true story of how a group of prisoners attempt a seemingly impossible escape from the first Nazi death camp in order to provide the first eyewitness account ...

#6
Maria's Lovers

Maria's Lovers

1984★ 5.9

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

A World War II prisoner returns home to his childhood sweetheart. However, back home, he discovers that he has to compete to win her love....

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