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10 Best Movies Like My Joy

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

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#1
The Geographer Drank His Globe Away

The Geographer Drank His Globe Away

2013★ 6.6

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

Victor Sluzhkin signs on as a teacher of geography in a secondary school in his native Perm (in the Urals) and gets lost in a haze of hard vodka, desperate love for a nymphet-like ...

#2
The Triplets of Belleville

The Triplets of Belleville

2003★ 7.4

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

When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno team up with the Belleville Sisters—an aged song-and-dance team from the days of ...

#3
Heli

Heli

2013★ 6.6

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

Heli must try and protect his young family when his 12-year-old sister inadvertently involves them in the brutal drug world. He must battle against the drug cartel that have been a...

#4
I Come with the Rain

I Come with the Rain

2009★ 5.6

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

Kline, a former Los Angeles police officer turned private detective, is hired by a powerful pharmaceutical conglomerate boss to investigate in Asia the disappearance of his only so...

#5
Horse Money

Horse Money

2014★ 7.2

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

While the young captains lead the revolution in the streets, the people of Fontainhas search for Ventura, lost in the woods....

#6
Ecaterina Teodoroiu

Ecaterina Teodoroiu

1930★ 6.0

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

A romantically embellished biopic of Ecaterina Teodoroiu, a Romanian woman who fought and died in World War I....