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10 Best Movies Like The Painted Bird

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

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#1
The Painted Veil

The Painted Veil

1934★ 6.4

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

The wife of a doctor in China falls in love with a diplomat....

#2
Painted Skin

Painted Skin

2008★ 6.0

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

Painted Skin is based on one of Pu Songling's classic short stories in Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. Zhou Xun stars as Xiao Wei, a fox spirit that feasts on human hearts i...

#3
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen

The Fabulous Baron Munchausen

1962★ 7.3

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

A 20th century man lands on the Moon and discovers that Baron Munchausen has beaten him to it, accompanied by Cyrano de Bergerac and the characters from Jules Verne's novels about ...

#4
National Street

National Street

2019★ 4.9

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

Overwhelmed by a world he can no longer control, a quarrelsome worker in his fifties tries to preserve the integrity of his neighbourhood......

#5
Psy

Psy

1992★ 7.1

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

In good old days Franz Maurer and his partners from secret police used to live like kings. Now, they all must adapt to new post-communist environment where they are scorned and los...

#6
Daisies for the Lady of the Manor

Daisies for the Lady of the Manor

1981★ 4.1

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

Fifteen-year-old Kateřina will once again spend the holidays at the Castle Krabonoš, where her parents are both wardens. She finds it dull because she's got to sit at the castle's ...