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10 Best Movies Like April Children

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

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#1
Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything

Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything

2023★ 5.8

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

Set in a warm summer in 1990 in former East Germany, it follows a young woman who begins a relationship with a charismatic farmer who is twice her age....

#2
Western

Western

2017★ 6.6

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

A group of German construction workers set out for a foreign construction site in the Bulgarian province. The strange country awakens adventure feelings among the men. At the same ...

#3
Jerichow

Jerichow

2009★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to April Children 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...

#4
When We Leave

When We Leave

2010★ 6.9

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

Umay is a young woman of Turkish descent, fighting for an independent and self-determined life in Germany against the resistance of her family. Her struggle initiates a dynamic, wh...

#5
The German Lesson

The German Lesson

2019★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to April Children 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....

#6
Farming

Farming

2018★ 6.2

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

Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Ins...

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