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10 Best Movies Like Never Look Away

If you loved Never Look Away, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden

Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden

2016★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Never Look Away for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Vienna, Austria, 1910. The young painter Egon Schiele is a rising artist, provocative and free, whose work, characterized by eroticism, shocks as much as it fascinates art lovers....

#2
The Tin Drum

The Tin Drum

1979★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Never Look Away for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out....

#3
Max

Max

2002★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Never Look Away for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 1918, a young, disillusioned Adolf Hitler strikes up a friendship with a Jewish art dealer while weighing a life of passion for art vs. talent at politics...

#4
Great Freedom

Great Freedom

2021★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Never Look Away for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In post-war Germany, liberation by the Allies does not mean freedom for everyone. Hans Hoffmann is repeatedly imprisoned under Paragraph 175, which criminalizes homosexuality. Neve...

#5
Fabian: Going to the Dogs

Fabian: Going to the Dogs

2021★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Never Look Away for fans of Drama & Romance & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 1930s Berlin, Dr. Jakob Fabian, who works by day in advertising for a cigarette company and by night wanders the streets of the city, falls in love with an actress. As her caree...

#6
Conspiracy

Conspiracy

2001★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Never Look Away for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best impleme...

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