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10 Best Movies Like My Best Fiend

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

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#1
Cobra Verde

Cobra Verde

1987★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My Best Fiend for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A fearsome 19th century bandit, Cobra Verde cuts a swath through Brazil until he arrives at the sugar plantation of Don Octávio Countinho. Not knowing that his new guest is the not...

#2
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

2010★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My Best Fiend for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

In the center of the story is the life of the indigenous people of the village Bakhtia at the river Yenisei in the Siberian Taiga. The camera follows the protagonists in the villag...

#3
The Machine Girl

The Machine Girl

2008★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My Best Fiend for fans of Action. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

The life of a young, Japanese schoolgirl is destroyed when her family is killed by a Ninja-Yakuza family. Her hand cut off, she replaces it with various machines-of-death, and seek...

#4
Heads or Tails?

Heads or Tails?

2025★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My Best Fiend for fans of Western. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

When cowboy Billi and his sweetheart Rosa run away together, he is accused of her husband's death and becomes the symbol of a local uprising. Everyone wants his head and only Rosa ...

#5
Little Dieter Needs to Fly

Little Dieter Needs to Fly

1997★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My Best Fiend for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Three decades after German-American pilot Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, he returns to the places where he was held prisoner during the early years of the Vietnam War. Acc...

#6
One-Armed Boxer

One-Armed Boxer

1972★ 7.0

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

A martial-arts student learns the iron fist and death grip techniques to avenge his teacher's death....