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10 Best Movies Like Barbara

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

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#1
The Lives of Others

The Lives of Others

2006★ 8.0

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

In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes unexpectedly sympathetic to the ...

#2
Jerichow

Jerichow

2009★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Barbara 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...

#3
The German Lesson

The German Lesson

2019★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Barbara 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....

#4
The Tasters

The Tasters

2025★ 6.6

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

In autumn 1943, in Gross-Partsch, 26-year-old Rosa, who had come from Berlin to stay with the parents of her husband Gregor, who was fighting on the Russian front, was taken by the...

#5
23

23

1998★ 6.8

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

The movie's plot is based on the true story of a group of young computer hackers from Hannover, Germany. In the late 1980s the orphaned Karl Koch invests his heritage in a flat and...

#6
As We Were Dreaming

As We Were Dreaming

2015★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Barbara 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....

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