Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 13, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Contacts

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

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#1
The Coach

The Coach

2018★ 6.6

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

Contemporary Russia. After he flubs a penalty kick, a humiliated national soccer player quits the game. He flees to a small town, where he decides to coach their local team....

#2
My Friend Ivan Lapshin

My Friend Ivan Lapshin

1985★ 6.7

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

Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well....

#3
An Unfinished Piece for Player Piano

An Unfinished Piece for Player Piano

1977★ 7.0

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

On a summer day in late 19th century Russia, a group of bourgeois friends and acquaintances gather at a dilapidated country estate....

#4
Lev Yashin. The Dream Goalkeeper

Lev Yashin. The Dream Goalkeeper

2019★ 7.5

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

An ordinary working class boy, like all his peers, he played football day and night and dreamed of being a striker. But no matter which team he played for - in the yard, at the fac...

#5
Fairfield Road

Fairfield Road

2010★ 6.3

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

Noah McManus is leaving his job with the Boston mayor's office for a dream gig in Washington, D.C. But in a single day, he finds out his new boss in Washington can no longer employ...

#6
Leviathan

Leviathan

2014★ 7.4

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

In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival ...

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