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10 Best Movies Like The Innocent

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

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#1
Conversation Piece

Conversation Piece

1974★ 7.3

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

A retired professor of American origin lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. He is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her lover, her daughter and her daugh...

#2
The Stranger

The Stranger

1967★ 6.7

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

Meursault is a man who feels utterly isolated from everyone and everything around him. This alienation results in sudden, inexplicable bursts of violence, culminating in murder....

#3
Ludwig

Ludwig

1973★ 7.4

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

Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Fan of Richard Wagner, betrayed by him, in love with his cou...

#4
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab

The Mystery of a Hansom Cab

2012★ 6.3

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

Melbourne, 1886. Two gentlemen climb into a hansom cab late one murky night. One man climbs out, the other travels on to St Kilda. On arrival, the driver finds the second man dead;...

#5
High Wall

High Wall

1947★ 6.3

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

Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having confessed, he's committed to an understaffed county asylum full of pathetic inmate...

#6
Searching for Tadzio

Searching for Tadzio

1970★ 6.5

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

An account of Italian film director Luchino Visconti's travels in search for a young actor to portray the role of Tadzio in his 1971 adaptation of Thomas Mann's novella Death in Ve...