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10 Best Movies Like The Breakthrough

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

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#1
Western

Western

2017★ 6.6

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

A group of German construction workers set out for a foreign construction site in the Bulgarian province. The strange country awakens adventure feelings among the men. At the same ...

#2
Tigertail

Tigertail

2020★ 6.7

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

A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter....

#3
Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything

Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything

2023★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Breakthrough 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....

#4
Mindwalk

Mindwalk

1991★ 6.9

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

On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Jack, a failed presidential candidate, Tom, a poet and Sonia, a physicist, engage in an intellectual conversation about politics, philoso...

#5
Night Crossing

Night Crossing

1982★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Breakthrough for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them. Based on a true story....

#6
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Breakthrough 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...

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