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10 Best Movies Like Cynics

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

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#1
An Unfinished Piece for Player Piano

An Unfinished Piece for Player Piano

1977★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cynics 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....

#2
Oblomov

Oblomov

1980★ 6.2

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

St. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov lives in a flat with his older servant, Zakhar. He sleeps much of the day, dreaming of his childhood on his pare...

#3
Ashes in the Snow

Ashes in the Snow

2018★ 6.4

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

The coming-of-age tale of 16-year-old Lina Vilkas who is deported to Siberia amid Stalin's reign of terror in the Baltic region during WWII. An aspiring artist, she secretly docume...

#4
The Road Dance

The Road Dance

2022★ 6.7

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

A young girl lives in the Outer Hebrides in a small village in the years just before WWI. Isolated and hard by the shore, her life takes a dramatic change when a terrible tragedy b...

#5
A Driver for Vera

A Driver for Vera

2004★ 6.0

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

The film is set during 1962 in Sevastopol, Crimea, then a secret Navy Base in the Soviet Union. General Serov hires Viktor, a cadet from the Kremlin Guard to work as his private ch...

#6
Ayka

Ayka

2018★ 6.9

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

A young Kyrgyz immigrant tries to eke out a living in Moscow after abandoning her newborn and fleeing the hospital....

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