10 Best Movies Like The Idiot
If you loved The Idiot, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.
The Coach
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Idiot 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....
Flights in Dreams and in Reality
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Idiot for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
On the eve of his fortieth anniversary Sergei Makarov looks back at his life and learns that he has achieved nothing. He was not able to be happy and to bring happiness to the clos...
Vanya on 42nd Street
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Idiot 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...
My Friend Ivan Lapshin
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Idiot 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....
Hardball
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Idiot 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...
All Together Now
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Idiot for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
An optimistic, talented teen clings to a huge secret: she's homeless and living on a school bus. When tragedy strikes, can she learn to accept a helping hand?...