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10 Best Movies Like Olesya

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

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#1
An Unfinished Piece for Player Piano

An Unfinished Piece for Player Piano

1977★ 7.0

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

On a summer day in late 19th century Russia, a group of bourgeois friends and acquaintances gather at a dilapidated country estate....

#2
The Coach

The Coach

2018★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Olesya 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....

#3
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#4
Skin

Skin

2009★ 6.4

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

Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era....

#5
Not Easily Broken

Not Easily Broken

2009★ 6.3

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

A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple....

#6
My Friend Ivan Lapshin

My Friend Ivan Lapshin

1985★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Olesya 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....

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