10 Best Movies Like First Trials
If you loved First Trials, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

The Coach
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to First Trials 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....

My Neighbor Adolf
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to First Trials for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
South America, 1960. A lonely and grumpy Holocaust survivor convinces himself that his new neighbor is none other than Adolf Hitler. Not being taken seriously, he starts an indepen...

My Friend Ivan Lapshin
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to First Trials 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....

The Kindness of Strangers
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to First Trials 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...

Petrov's Flu
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to First Trials for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
A day in the life of a comic book artist and his family in Russia. While suffering from the flu, Petrov is carried by his friend Igor on a long walk, drifting in and out of fantasy...

A Driver for Vera
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to First Trials 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...