10 Best Movies Like The American Friend
If you loved The American Friend, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.
The State of Things
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The American Friend for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956). The producer is nowhere to be found and direc...
Love Affairs Usually End Badly
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The American Friend for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Zina, young theater opener, hesitates between the love of Slim, taxi driver who hopes to become a lawyer and that of Frederic, who holds the poster at the theater. Why not keep her...
Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The American Friend for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Follow-up to the TV trilogy “Heimat”, this time for cinemas, set again in the fictional village Schabbach in the Hunsrück region of Rhineland-Palatinate....
Saturday Fiction
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The American Friend for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
Iconic actress Jean Yu returns to Japanese-occupied China to star in a play directed by her former lover. However, her undercover work for the Allies soon places her life in grave ...
The Scarlet Letter
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The American Friend for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In 17th-century Salem, Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet A because she is an adulteress, with a child out of wedlock. For seven years, she has refused to name the father. A vigorou...
Lola
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The American Friend for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants money, property, and love. Pitting...