Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 19, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Horse, Apple, and Spring

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

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#1
Close-Up

Close-Up

1990★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Horse, Apple, and Spring 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...

#2
Life, and Nothing More…

Life, and Nothing More…

1992★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Horse, Apple, and Spring for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After the earthquake of Guilan, a film director and his son travel to the devastated area to search for the actors from the movie the director made there a few years previously. In...

#3
Tehran Taboo

Tehran Taboo

2017★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Horse, Apple, and Spring 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...

#4
Celia

Celia

1989★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Horse, Apple, and Spring for fans of Drama. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

In 1950s Australia, young Celia is growing up with a sense of isolation and mistrust of the world that surrounds her. Her mother and father won't let her play with the kids next do...

#5
Lemonade Mouth

Lemonade Mouth

2011★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Horse, Apple, and Spring for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

When five ragtag freshman first meet in detention, it seems they have nothing in common. But, through music, they form an unbreakable bond and discover they have the makings of the...

#6
Septembers of Shiraz

Septembers of Shiraz

2015★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Horse, Apple, and Spring for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In this adaptation of the critically acclaimed debut novel by Iranian American author Dalia Sofer, a secular Jewish family is caught up in the maelstrom of the 1979 Iranian Revolut...

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