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10 Best Movies Like Expiation

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

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#1
The Forty-First

The Forty-First

1956★ 6.9

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

An unexpected romance occurs for a female Red Army sniper and a White Army officer....

#2
Maria's Lovers

Maria's Lovers

1984★ 6.0

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

A World War II prisoner returns home to his childhood sweetheart. However, back home, he discovers that he has to compete to win her love....

#3
Bastards

Bastards

2006★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Expiation for fans of War & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A "Hitlerjugend" kind of story, set in the Soviet Union during the Second World War, based on a fictitious story from the eponymous book by Vladimir Kunin....

#4
House of Fools

House of Fools

2002★ 5.8

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

The war film that's not a war film. A film about the mental institution which backdrop is the Chechen war. A story about the patients living in an institution during the war on the...

#5
Ashes in the Snow

Ashes in the Snow

2018★ 6.4

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

The coming-of-age tale of 16-year-old Lina Vilkas who is deported to Siberia amid Stalin's reign of terror in the Baltic region during WWII. An aspiring artist, she secretly docume...

#6
Spring on Zarechnaya Street

Spring on Zarechnaya Street

1956★ 7.1

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

The story unfolds in an industrial town where a young and charming literature teacher arrives, assigned to teach at an evening school. One of the boys from the metallurgical plant ...

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