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10 Best Movies Like A Birthday to Remember

If you loved A Birthday to Remember, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Jerichow

Jerichow

2009★ 6.5

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

In a small Northern German town, a dishonourably discharged Afghanistan veteran is offered a job as a deliveryman by an alcoholic Turkish entrepreneur, through which the former mee...

#2
Alone in Berlin

Alone in Berlin

2016★ 6.7

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

Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’...

#3
As We Were Dreaming

As We Were Dreaming

2015★ 6.0

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

Andreas Dresen's adaptation of Clemens Meyer's novel about a group of East German friends right after the fall of the Wall....

#4
The German Lesson

The German Lesson

2019★ 6.5

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

In a small North German village a drama played out during and shortly after the Second World War about duty versus individual conscience and morality....

#5
Tough Enough

Tough Enough

2006★ 6.9

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

From the youth directed novel of the same name by Greogor Tressnow comes a film by Detlev Buck that is a realistic portrait of life in the section of Berlin called Neukölln. It’s a...

#6
Run Lola Run

Run Lola Run

1998★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Birthday to Remember for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. She has 20 minutes to raise this amount and meet Manni. Ot...

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