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10 Best Movies Like Melancholia

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

#1
Last Tango in Paris

Last Tango in Paris

1972★ 6.9

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

A recently widowed American begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman....

#2
Possession

Possession

1981★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Melancholia for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. B...

#3
Single White Female

Single White Female

1992★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Melancholia for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Having recently split from her fiancé, Allison Jones welcomes new roommate Hedra Carlson. The young women quickly form a bond, but soon Allison begins to notice not all’s well with...

#4
Elegy to the Visitor from the Revolution

Elegy to the Visitor from the Revolution

2011★ 6.4

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

Deliberately structured and less beholden to its narrative, the film is told in three parts, with each part pertaining to each of the three visits of the time-travelling visitor fr...

#5
Ashadh Ka Ek Din

Ashadh Ka Ek Din

1971★ 7.4

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

A literary film based on a play in three acts, Ashad Ka Ek Din portrays the love of Mallika and Kalidasa, the renowned Sanskrit poet and dramatist. Vilom, a friend to both and inte...

#6
Cries and Whispers

Cries and Whispers

1972★ 7.9

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

As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so immersed in their own psychic pains that they are unable to offer her the support she needs....