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10 Best Movies Like Appassionata

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

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#1
The Ballad of Narayama

The Ballad of Narayama

1983★ 7.5

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

In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their ...

#2
Salomé

Salomé

2013★ 6.2

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

After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his k...

#3
Skin

Skin

2009★ 6.4

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

Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era....

#4
Irezumi

Irezumi

1966★ 6.9

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

Otsuya, the daughter of a rich merchant, elopes with her lover Shinsuke, an employee of her father's. During their flight, Otsuya's beauty attracts the gaze of Seikichi, a mysterio...

#5
Harmonium

Harmonium

2016★ 6.6

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

Toshio hires Yasaka to work in his workshop. But then this old acquaintance, who has just been released from prison, begins to meddle in Toshio's family life....

#6
Sakuran

Sakuran

2006★ 6.5

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

Kiyoha rises from the lowly courtesan ranks to the high class position of Oiran in the steamy red-light district of Yoshiwara. She is determined to stand on her own two feet and li...

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