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10 Best Movies Like Budapest Tales

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

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#1
An American Rhapsody

An American Rhapsody

2001★ 6.4

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

A Hungarian family forced to flee the Communist country for the United States must leave a young daughter behind. Six years later, the family arranges to bring the absent daughter ...

#2
Kontroll

Kontroll

2003★ 7.2

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

A subway enforcement officer working in the oppressively gray Budapest metro gets a chance at love — but first he needs to find out why passengers are jumping — or being pushed — t...

#3
Sunset

Sunset

2018★ 5.8

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

In 1913, an orphaned young woman arrives in Budapest to take up employment as a milliner at the hat store that belonged to her late parents but becomes mired in a search for a brot...

#4
On the Edge

On the Edge

2001★ 6.6

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

A suicidal young man is committed to a Dublin psychiatric hospital where he meets new friends who greatly influence his life....

#5
Fateless

Fateless

2005★ 6.9

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

A Hungarian youth comes of age at Buchenwald during World War II. György Köves is 14, the son of a merchant who's sent to a forced labor camp. After his father's departure, György ...

#6
Ali and Nino

Ali and Nino

2016★ 6.5

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

Muslim prince Ali and Georgian aristocrat Nino have grown up in the Russian province of Azerbaijan. Their tragic love story sees the outbreak of the First World War and the world’s...

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