10 Best Movies Like It Began This Way...
If you loved It Began This Way..., we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

The Coach
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It Began This Way... for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Contemporary Russia. After he flubs a penalty kick, a humiliated national soccer player quits the game. He flees to a small town, where he decides to coach their local team....

An Unfinished Piece for Player Piano
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It Began This Way... for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
On a summer day in late 19th century Russia, a group of bourgeois friends and acquaintances gather at a dilapidated country estate....

The Young One
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It Began This Way... for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

The End of St. Petersburg
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It Began This Way... for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Shortly before the outbreak of WWI, a peasant from rural Russia arrives in St. Petersburg to find work....

Mindwalk
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It Began This Way... for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Jack, a failed presidential candidate, Tom, a poet and Sonia, a physicist, engage in an intellectual conversation about politics, philoso...

Ayka
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It Began This Way... for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A young Kyrgyz immigrant tries to eke out a living in Moscow after abandoning her newborn and fleeing the hospital....