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10 Best Movies Like Assandira

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

#1
Lord of the Ants

Lord of the Ants

2022★ 7.2

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

Based on true events of the late 60s in Italy, poet, playwright and myrmecologist Aldo Braibanti is prosecuted and sentenced to prison for the love he shares with his barely-of-age...

#2
A Translator

A Translator

2019★ 6.8

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

A Russian Literature professor at the University of Havana is ordered to work as a translator for child victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster when they are sent to Cuba for med...

#3
Padre Padrone

Padre Padrone

1977★ 6.9

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

The true story of the life of Gavino Ledda, the son of a Sardinian shepherd, and how he managed to escape his harsh, almost barbaric existence by slowly educating himself, despite ...

#4
Pretty Butterflies

Pretty Butterflies

2012★ 6.3

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

3 August, Cagliari: a poor neighborhood. At three in the morning eleven-year-old Cate is woken by the screams of her eccentric neighbor. Cate wants to run away from that apartment,...

#5
Romantic Guide to Lost Places

Romantic Guide to Lost Places

2020★ 5.7

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

Benno and Allegra: he's over fifty, English, and drinks like a fish; she's twenty years younger, a travel blogger with lots of imagination. They both live off their lies and have n...

#6
The New Mutants

The New Mutants

2020★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Assandira for fans of Sci-Fi. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Five young mutants, just discovering their abilities while held in a secret facility against their will, fight to escape their past sins and save themselves....