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10 Best Movies Like Ivanov

If you loved Ivanov, 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 Ivanov 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 Ivanov 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
The Salesman

The Salesman

2016★ 7.3

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

Forced out of their apartment due to dangerous works on a neighboring building, Emad and Rana move into a new flat in the center of Tehran. An incident linked to the previous tenan...

#4
Welcome to Sudden Death

Welcome to Sudden Death

2020★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ivanov for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Jesse Freeman is a former special forces officer and explosives expert now working a regular job as a security guard in a state-of-the-art basketball arena. Trouble erupts when a t...

#5
Embattled

Embattled

2020★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ivanov for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

The eldest son of a ruthlessly tough MMA champion must fight his way out of the abusive cycle his father has continued....

#6
Circumstance

Circumstance

2011★ 6.6

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

A wealthy Iranian family struggles to contain a teenager's growing sexual rebellion and her brother's newfound conservatism....

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