
10 Best Movies Like Those Who Kept the Fire
If you loved Those Who Kept the Fire, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

My Friend Ivan Lapshin
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Those Who Kept the Fire 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....

My Joy
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Those Who Kept the Fire for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Georgy is driving a load of freight into Russia when, after an unpleasant encounter with the police at a border crossing, he finds himself giving a lift to a strange old man with d...

The Coach
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Those Who Kept the Fire 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....

A Driver for Vera
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Those Who Kept the Fire 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...

The Stoker
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Those Who Kept the Fire for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A shell-shocked Afghanistan war hero named Ivan Skryabin (Mikhail Skryabin) spends his days stoking the fire in a giant coal furnace. When he isn’t tending the flames, he keeps bus...

Return
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Those Who Kept the Fire 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....