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10 Best Movies Like Making Plans for Lena

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

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#1
On a Magical Night

On a Magical Night

2019★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Making Plans for Lena for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

After 20 years of marriage, Maria decides to leave her husband. She moves into room 212 at the hotel across the street, with a bird’s-eye view of her apartment, her husband and the...

#2
Three Colors: White

Three Colors: White

1994★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Making Plans for Lena for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Polish immigrant Karol Karol finds himself out of a marriage, a job and a country when his French wife, Dominique, divorces him after six months due to his impotence. Forced to lea...

#3
Polisse

Polisse

2011★ 7.8

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

Paris, France. Fred and his colleagues, members of the BPM, the Police Child Protection Unit, dedicated to pursuing all sorts of offenses committed against the weakest, must endure...

#4
Dream Lover

Dream Lover

1994★ 6.4

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

Not long after they cross paths at an art gallery, architect Ray Reardon and hypnotically sensual Lena are married with children. But as strange incidents occur, Ray begins to real...

#5
The Swimming Pool

The Swimming Pool

1969★ 7.0

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

Set in a magnificent villa near a sun-drenched St. Tropez, lovers Jean-Paul and Marianne are spending a happy, lazy summer holiday. Their only concern is to gratify their mutual pa...

#6
Somewhere in Queens

Somewhere in Queens

2023★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Making Plans for Lena for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Leo and Angela Russo live a simple life in Queens, surrounded by their overbearing Italian-American family. When their son finds success on his high school basketball team, Leo tea...

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