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10 Best Movies Like The Abdication

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

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#1
The Way to the Heart

The Way to the Heart

2024★ 9.9

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

Ava, an award-winning chef at a big-city restaurant, has lost her spark. Her boss sends her out to find herself to save her menu and her job. She returns home and finds little to i...

#2
Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross

Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross

1961★ 7.7

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

This is the very first silent slapstick comedy short about adventures of Worldly, Coward, and Fool. What's more fun: fishing with worms, or dynamite? Three friends decided to have ...

#3
Natale sul Nilo

Natale sul Nilo

2002★ 5.2

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

A womanizing lawyer follows his wife and son to a trip to Egypt in a last-ditch effort to make up for his infidelities. Also travelling to Egypt is a bumbling police chief who's de...

#4
Six: Inside

Six: Inside

2009★ 8.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Abdication for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Delves deep into the anxiety, thrill and uncertainty of six aspiring animation artists as they are plunged into the twelve-week trial-by-fire that is the NFB's Hothouse for animati...

#5
Delisin

Delisin

1975★ 6.4

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

A shy introvert falls for the photographer who took her pictures during high school. Confused and worried, she doubts that love will elapse and can never open up to her lover. Yet ...

#6
F.O.T.O.G.R.A.F.

F.O.T.O.G.R.A.F.

2018★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Abdication for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A short film based on the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. fictional universe, combining the “Picnic to the curb” of the Strugatsky brothers, “Stalker” by Andrei Tarkovsky and the “Exclusion Zone” l...