Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 13, 2026

10 Best Movies Like The Owner

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

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#1
My Friend Ivan Lapshin

My Friend Ivan Lapshin

1985★ 6.7

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

Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well....

#2
The Coach

The Coach

2018★ 6.6

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

Contemporary Russia. After he flubs a penalty kick, a humiliated national soccer player quits the game. He flees to a small town, where he decides to coach their local team....

#3
Return

Return

2011★ 6.4

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

Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes....

#4
An Unfinished Piece for Player Piano

An Unfinished Piece for Player Piano

1977★ 7.0

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

On a summer day in late 19th century Russia, a group of bourgeois friends and acquaintances gather at a dilapidated country estate....

#5
A Driver for Vera

A Driver for Vera

2004★ 6.0

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

The film is set during 1962 in Sevastopol, Crimea, then a secret Navy Base in the Soviet Union. General Serov hires Viktor, a cadet from the Kremlin Guard to work as his private ch...

#6
The Road Dance

The Road Dance

2022★ 6.7

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

A young girl lives in the Outer Hebrides in a small village in the years just before WWI. Isolated and hard by the shore, her life takes a dramatic change when a terrible tragedy b...

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