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10 Best Movies Like Sylvia

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

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#1
Mephisto

Mephisto

1981★ 7.2

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

A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associ...

#2
Blancanieves

Blancanieves

2012★ 7.3

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

A black and white silent movie, based on the Snow White fairy tale, that is set in a romantic version of 1920s Seville and centered on a female bullfighter....

#3
Possession

Possession

2002★ 6.0

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

Maud Bailey, a brilliant English academic, is researching the life and work of poet Christabel La Motte. Roland Michell is an American scholar in London to study Randolph Henry Ash...

#4
Another Time, Another Place

Another Time, Another Place

1958★ 5.8

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

In England during WWII, an American news correspondent’s affair with a married British correspondent ends tragically when he is killed in action. Fearing a nervous breakdown as a r...

#5
View from the Top

View from the Top

2003★ 5.6

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

No one thought Donna would go very far. But when she sets her sights on becoming a first-class international flight attendant, Donna throws caution to the wind and takes off in pur...

#6
Stripes

Stripes

1981★ 6.6

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

Hard-luck cabbie John Winger, directionless after being fired from his job and dumped by his girlfriend, enlists in the U.S. Army with his close pal, Russell Ziskey. After his bare...