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10 Best Movies Like Ode to Joy

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

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Avatar

2006★ 5.9

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

Tension mounts between a quadraplegic man and his wife as she prepares a bath for him....

#2
Fate

Fate

2003★ 3.5

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

Serial killers have plagued the American landscape for decades, committing gruesome atrocities, and providing some tough cases for criminal investigators to crack. Two detectives a...

#3
Avatar Spirits

Avatar Spirits

2010★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ode to Joy for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino, co-creators of the hit television series, Avatar: The Last Airbender, reflect on the creation of the masterful series....

#4
Gourmet Detective: Eat, Drink and Be Buried

Gourmet Detective: Eat, Drink and Be Buried

2017★ 7.1

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

Henry and Maggie attend the birthday party of a local publisher, where his son and stepson reenact a historical 18th century dual. Someone, however, has loaded the antique pistol w...

#5
South African Spook Hunter

South African Spook Hunter

2018★ 7.5

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

South African Spook Hunter Matty Vans hires a film crew to document his paranormal ghost hunting business. Just as they tire of following him around to find no evidence of the para...

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Professor Mamlock

Professor Mamlock

1938★ 5.2

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

Made in Stalin’s Soviet Union, Professor Mamlock was one of the first films worldwide to tackle Nazi anti-Semitism openly. Based on a play by a German-Jewish exile in Moscow, Fried...