Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 17, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Birthday

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

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#1
How Viktor "The Garlic" Took Alexey "The Stud" to the Nursing Home

How Viktor "The Garlic" Took Alexey "The Stud" to the Nursing Home

2017★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Birthday for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Viktor spends his free time trawling bars with ladies of questionable repute, from where he is picked up by a wife he doesn’t love, the mother of a child they never planned. Viktor...

#2
The Visit

The Visit

1964★ 7.1

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

Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a multi-m...

#3
Autumn Marathon

Autumn Marathon

1979★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Birthday for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Andrey Pavlovich Buzykin, who makes a living by teaching at an institute and translating English literature, is cheating on his wife. Buzykin's main problem is that he's a kind man...

#4
Closeness

Closeness

2017★ 6.8

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

1998, Nalchik. A Jewish family is in trouble: the youngest son and his bride do not come home, and in the morning, a ransom note arrives. The ransom is so high that the family is f...

#5
Salomé

Salomé

2013★ 6.2

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

After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his k...

#6
The Kindness of Strangers

The Kindness of Strangers

2019★ 6.3

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

Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who get...

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