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10 Best Movies Like White Widow

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

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#1
The Play House

The Play House

1921★ 6.8

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

Upon waking from the dream of a theater peopled entirely by numerous Buster Keatons, a lowly stage hand causes havoc everywhere he works....

#2
Jim's Story

Jim's Story

2024★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to White Widow for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Aymeric runs into Florence, a former coworker, one evening in Saint-Claude in the Haut-Jura. She is six months pregnant and single. When she gives birth to Jim, Aymeric is there. T...

#3
Cries and Whispers

Cries and Whispers

1972★ 7.9

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

As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so immersed in their own psychic pains that they are unable to offer her the support she needs....

#4
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum

The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum

1939★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to White Widow for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that he is only praised for his acting ...

#5
Initiation Love

Initiation Love

2015★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to White Widow for fans of Romance. It captures a similar heartwarming atmosphere.

Set in Shizuoka and Tokyo, Japan in the late 1980's. Takkun is a university student in Shizuoka attempting to find a job. Mayu is a dental hygienist. They meet through a blind date...

#6
Through the Olive Trees

Through the Olive Trees

1994★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to White Widow for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When the actor in a scene for his film Life And Nothing More… has to quit, a film director casts another man for the part. However, complications arise since the man and the woman ...