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10 Best Movies Like Skerry-18

If you loved Skerry-18, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Coach

The Coach

2018★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Skerry-18 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....

#2
My Friend Ivan Lapshin

My Friend Ivan Lapshin

1985★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Skerry-18 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....

#3
Return

Return

2011★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Skerry-18 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes....

#4
Autumn Marathon

Autumn Marathon

1979★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Skerry-18 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Andrey Pavlovich Buzykin, who makes a living by teaching at an institute and translating English literature, is cheating on his wife. Buzykin's main problem is that he's a kind man...

#5
Burnt by the Sun

Burnt by the Sun

1994★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Skerry-18 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends....

#6
A Driver for Vera

A Driver for Vera

2004★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Skerry-18 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The film is set during 1962 in Sevastopol, Crimea, then a secret Navy Base in the Soviet Union. General Serov hires Viktor, a cadet from the Kremlin Guard to work as his private ch...

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