Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 12, 2026

10 Best Movies Like The Student

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

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#1
Nicholas and Alexandra

Nicholas and Alexandra

1971★ 6.9

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

Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family....

#2
The Wizard of the Kremlin

The Wizard of the Kremlin

2026★ 6.4

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

Russia, early 1990s. Amid post-Soviet chaos, a brilliant young man, Vadim Baranov, charts his path. First an artist, then a reality TV producer, he becomes the spin doctor to a ris...

#3
October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

1928★ 6.9

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

Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet Montage' style, it re-enacts in ce...

#4
Burnt by the Sun

Burnt by the Sun

1994★ 6.9

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

Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends....

#5
Boudica

Boudica

2023★ 5.8

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

Inspired by events in A.D. 60, Boudica follows the eponymous Celtic warrior who rules the Iceni people alongside her husband Prasutagus. When he dies at the hands of Roman soldiers...

#6
Anastasia

Anastasia

1997★ 7.6

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

Ten years after she was separated from her family, an eighteen-year-old orphan with vague memories of the past sets out to Paris in hopes of reuniting with her grandmother. She is ...

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