Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 16, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Delighted

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

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#1
Tehran Taboo

Tehran Taboo

2017★ 7.1

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

The lives of three strong-willed women and a young musician cross paths in Tehran’s schizophrenic society where sex, adultery, corruption, prostitution and drugs coexist with stric...

#2
The Wind Will Carry Us

The Wind Will Carry Us

1999★ 7.1

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

Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural Kurdish village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local ...

#3
Reading Lolita in Tehran

Reading Lolita in Tehran

2024★ 7.2

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

As Islamic morality squads stage arbitrary raids in Tehran and as fundamentalists seize hold of the universities, Azar Nafisi, an inspired teacher, secretly gathers six of her most...

#4
The Circle

The Circle

2000★ 6.9

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

Various women struggle to function in the oppressively sexist society of contemporary Iran....

#5
Close-Up

Close-Up

1990★ 7.9

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

This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf...

#6
Trafficked

Trafficked

2017★ 6.6

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

In this story inspired by real characters, three girls from America, Nigeria and India are trafficked through an elaborate global network and enslaved in a Texas brothel, and must ...

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