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10 Best Movies Like Edvard Munch

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

#1
Gummo

Gummo

1997★ 6.6

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

Solomon and Tummler are two teenagers killing time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recovered from the tornado that ravaged the community in the 1970s....

#2
Equinox Flower

Equinox Flower

1958★ 7.4

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

Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a coworker and is adamant to live life her own way, in...

#3
Syndromes and a Century

Syndromes and a Century

2006★ 6.8

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

A story about director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s parents who were both doctors, and his memories of growing up in a hospital environment....

#4
La Commune (Paris, 1871)

La Commune (Paris, 1871)

2003★ 7.7

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

We are in the year 1871. A journalist for Versailles Television broadcasts a soothing and official view of events while a Commune television is set up to provide the perspectives o...

#5
The Neighbor

The Neighbor

2020★ 4.9

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

A middle-aged man in a stagnant marriage, finds his life upended when an attractive young woman and her seemingly abusive husband move in next door....

#6
The War Is Over

The War Is Over

1989★ 7.1

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

The film is set in France in August 1944 at the end of the war. German troops are in retreat as the allies are coming in. Two French boys run from home and on their journey they st...