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10 Best Movies Like Humanity and Paper Balloons

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

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#1
Fuori

Fuori

2025★ 6.5

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

Rome. The 1980s. After the magnum opus The Art of Joy she has been working on for a decade is rejected by the Italian publishing world, writer Goliarda Sapienza commits a desperate...

#2
Killing

Killing

2018★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Humanity and Paper Balloons for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

In Edo period Japan, a lone ronin lives in a village helping the farmers tend to their land. One day, a group of outlaw swordsmen enter the village....

#3
A Man of Action

A Man of Action

2022★ 6.4

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

Loosely inspired by the life of Lucio Urtubia, explore the figure of the so-called anarchist 'Robin Hood,' who ran a legendary counterfeiting operation in Paris that put him in the...

#4
Esterno Notte (part II)

Esterno Notte (part II)

2022★ 7.9

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

The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists...

#5
Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush

Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush

2022★ 6.2

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

Desperate to help her son, Rabiye Kurnaz, a housewife and loving mother from Bremen, goes to the police, notifies authorities and almost despairs at their impotence and in the end,...

#6
The Edge of the Blade

The Edge of the Blade

2023★ 6.6

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

In 1887, at a time when duels are in vogue in Paris, Clément Lacaze and Marie-Rose Astié meet. He's a charismatic master of arms; she's a feminist, far ahead of her time. Clément g...