10 Best Movies Like Onkel Wanja
If you loved Onkel Wanja, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Vanya on 42nd Street
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Onkel Wanja for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
An uninterrupted rehearsal of Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya' plays out by a company of actors. The setting: their run-down theater with an unusable stage and crumbling ceiling. The play i...

Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Onkel Wanja for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Set in a warm summer in 1990 in former East Germany, it follows a young woman who begins a relationship with a charismatic farmer who is twice her age....

Farming
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Onkel Wanja for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Ins...

El Chicano
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Onkel Wanja for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law....

The Young One
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Onkel Wanja for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

The River
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Onkel Wanja for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer a...