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10 Best Movies Like Batch '81

If you loved Batch '81, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

#1
Drifting Clouds

Drifting Clouds

1996★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Batch '81 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

The ever-poker-faced Ilona loses her job as a restaurant hostess, as her tram driver husband, Lauri, also finds himself out of work. Together they must hit the streets of Helsinki,...

#2
Will Your Heart Beat Faster?

Will Your Heart Beat Faster?

1980★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Batch '81 for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

In a spoof on the contemporary sacred cons, two yuppy couples get entangled with warring smugglers of dope that include fake priests and nuns as well as Japanese and Chinese agents...

#3
Call Me by Your Name

Call Me by Your Name

2017★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Batch '81 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-...

#4
Julieta

Julieta

2016★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Batch '81 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The film spans 30 years in Julieta’s life from a nostalgic 1985 where everything seems hopeful, to 2015 where her life appears to be beyond repair and she is on the verge of madnes...

#5
Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

2023★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Batch '81 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II....

#6
PK

PK

2014★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Batch '81 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A stranger in the city asks questions no one has asked before. Known only by his initials, the man's innocent questions and childlike curiosity take him on a journey of love, laugh...