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10 Best Movies Like The Beginning

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

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#1
Old Man Khottabych

Old Man Khottabych

1957★ 7.0

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

A boy named Volka discovers an ancient vessel on the bottom of a river. When he opens it, a genie emerges from there. He calls himself Hassan Abdurrahman ibn Khottab, or in Russian...

#2
Then She Found Me

Then She Found Me

2007★ 5.6

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

A New York schoolteacher experiences a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves, her adoptive mother dies, and her biological mother, an eccentric talk show hos...

#3
Carnival

Carnival

1981★ 6.8

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

A young Russian girl is in love with show business and wants to leave her small town for Moscow and make it big in the big city. She encounters her long missing, remarried father a...

#4
Adam's Rib

Adam's Rib

1990★ 5.1

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

The film is based on the story of Anatoly Kurchatkin "House of Women". A tragicomedy about four women of three generations who lives in a tiny Moscow apartment: a sick grandmother...

#5
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

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

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....

#6
The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest

2002★ 6.8

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

Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a co...