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10 Best Movies Like Alena

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

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#1
Three Christs

Three Christs

2017★ 6.6

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

Dr. Alan Stone breaks new ground for treatment of the mentally ill through an experiment on three paranoid schizophrenic patients who believe they are Jesus Christ....

#2
Neverwas

Neverwas

2005★ 6.4

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

Zach Riley is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, Millwood. What he doesn't reveal at the time o...

#3
The Human Voice

The Human Voice

2020★ 6.7

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

A woman watches time pass beside the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn't understand that his master ha...

#4
Helen

Helen

2009★ 6.5

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

On the outside, Helen has it all – a loving family and a successful career – but when her suppressed mental illness resurfaces, the world crumbles around her. Crippled by depressio...

#5
Mammal

Mammal

2016★ 6.2

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

After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his i...

#6
Girl, Interrupted

Girl, Interrupted

1999★ 7.6

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

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wond...

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