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

My Friend Ivan Lapshin
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Barbarians for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well....

An Unfinished Piece for Player Piano
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Barbarians for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
On a summer day in late 19th century Russia, a group of bourgeois friends and acquaintances gather at a dilapidated country estate....

Hardball
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Barbarians for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of gettin...

The Safety of Objects
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Barbarians for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, an...

My Joy
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Barbarians for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Georgy is driving a load of freight into Russia when, after an unpleasant encounter with the police at a border crossing, he finds himself giving a lift to a strange old man with d...

The Coach
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Barbarians for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Contemporary Russia. After he flubs a penalty kick, a humiliated national soccer player quits the game. He flees to a small town, where he decides to coach their local team....