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10 Best Movies Like Made in USSR

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

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#1
A Dry White Season

A Dry White Season

1989★ 6.7

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

During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody....

#2
Reading Lolita in Tehran

Reading Lolita in Tehran

2024★ 7.2

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

As Islamic morality squads stage arbitrary raids in Tehran and as fundamentalists seize hold of the universities, Azar Nafisi, an inspired teacher, secretly gathers six of her most...

#3
My Friend Ivan Lapshin

My Friend Ivan Lapshin

1985★ 6.8

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

Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well....

#4
Lady Driver

Lady Driver

2020★ 6.4

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

When a rebellious teen embarks on a solo summer journey to connect with her roots, she finds herself in a new world, geared up for the ride of her life, and discovers she had the d...

#5
Scarecrow

Scarecrow

1983★ 6.8

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

A twelve years old girl Lena who has come to live with her grandfather in a small Russian town is being bullied by her classmates. She took the rap of being a class traitor because...

#6
The Coach

The Coach

2018★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Made in USSR 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....

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