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10 Best Movies Like This Must Be the Place

If you loved This Must Be the Place, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Il Divo

Il Divo

2008★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Must Be the Place for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: electoral battles, terrorist ma...

#2
The Family Friend

The Family Friend

2006★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Must Be the Place for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relation...

#3
The Great Beauty

The Great Beauty

2013★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Must Be the Place for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parti...

#4
I Love You in All Languages of the World

I Love You in All Languages of the World

2005★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Must Be the Place for fans of Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A divorced high school PE teacher falls in love with a single mom before learning that her daughter is a student who's been hitting on him between classes....

#5
Land and Freedom

Land and Freedom

1995★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Must Be the Place for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists an...

#6
The Consequences of Love

The Consequences of Love

2004★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Must Be the Place for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Lugano, Switzerland. Titta Di Girolamo is a discreet and sullen man who has been living for almost a decade in a modest hotel room, a prisoner of an atrocious routine, apparently w...