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10 Best Movies Like Dancing at the Dump

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

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#1
Jerichow

Jerichow

2009★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dancing at the Dump 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...

#2
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 Dancing at the Dump 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....

#3
Mammal

Mammal

2016★ 6.2

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

After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his i...

#4
Love in Thoughts

Love in Thoughts

2004★ 6.3

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

A posthumous look at the last days of Guenther's life as he, his best friend, and his sister let loose on a four-day binge of alcohol, drugs, and sex....

#5
Marianne and Juliane

Marianne and Juliane

1981★ 7.0

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

Germany, 1968: The priest's daughters Marianna and Juliane both fight for changes in society, like making abortion legal. However their means are totally different: while Juliane's...

#6
Effi Briest

Effi Briest

1974★ 6.6

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

When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated Baltic town and a house that she fears is haunted. Starved for companionship, E...

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