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10 Best Movies Like The Tunnel

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

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#1
Balloon

Balloon

2018★ 7.5

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

Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it crashes just before the border. The Stasi finds traces of this attempt to escape and...

#2
The Lives of Others

The Lives of Others

2006★ 8.0

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

In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes unexpectedly sympathetic to the ...

#3
Funeral in Berlin

Funeral in Berlin

1966★ 6.4

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

Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect but the evidence is contradictory. Stok wants the British to hand...

#4
The Serpent's Egg

The Serpent's Egg

1977★ 6.2

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

In 1923 Berlin, following the suicide of his brother, an American acrobat struggles to survive while facing unemployment, depression, alcoholism, and the social decay of Germany du...

#5
Berlin Falling

Berlin Falling

2017★ 5.8

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

Frank left his life as a soldier behind and wants to rebuild his life in Brandenburg. He is on his way to meet his daughter, Lily, after a long time of not seeing her. As he stops ...

#6
Two Lives

Two Lives

2012★ 6.6

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

Europe 1990, the Berlin wall has just crumbled: Katrine, raised in East Germany, but now living in Norway for the last 20 years, is a “war child”; the result of a love relationship...

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