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10 Best Movies Like Taking Off

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

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#1
Betty Blue

Betty Blue

1986★ 7.2

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

A lackadaisical handyman and aspiring novelist tries to support his younger girlfriend as she slowly succumbs to madness....

#2
Ragtime

Ragtime

1981★ 7.0

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

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s N...

#3
A Taste of Honey

A Taste of Honey

1961★ 6.9

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

While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo has a brief affair that leaves her pregnant and abandoned. When her mother remarr...

#4
Wedding in Galilee

Wedding in Galilee

1987★ 6.0

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

A Palestinian seeks Israeli permission to waive curfew to give his son a fine wedding. The military governor's condition is that he and his officers attend. The groom berates his f...

#5
How Do You Like Them Bananas

How Do You Like Them Bananas

1966★ 10.0

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

A clergyman seeks a donation from a banker in this short slapstick comedy....

#6
Crimson Curtain

Crimson Curtain

1952★ 6.2

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

Bertal, a despotic and hated theater director, is assassinated before a performance of Macbeth in which he was to play with Aurélia Nobli, his companion and Ludovic Arn, her lover....