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10 Best Movies Like The Needle

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

#1
Assa

Assa

1987★ 7.0

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

ASSA is set in Crimea during the winter in the mid eighties. A young musician (Bananan) falls for mobster's (Krymov) young mistress (Alika). The parallel story line involves an 18t...

#2
Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life

Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life

2010★ 6.9

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

A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s to his death in 1991 at...

#3
What Have I Done to Deserve This?

What Have I Done to Deserve This?

1984★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Needle for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A henpecked housewife ekes out a meager existence, surrounded by a host of colorful characters: her ungrateful husband, her delinquent sons, her headstrong mother-in-law, and her s...

#4
Admiral

Admiral

2008★ 6.3

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

This is a story of a great love facing the greatest drama of the history of Russia. Admiral Kolchak is a true war hero and beloved husband and father. One day he meets Anna, the lo...

#5
Chapiteau Show: Love and Friendship - Part 1

Chapiteau Show: Love and Friendship - Part 1

2012★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Needle for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A cyberstranger, a deaf baker, hipsters and Crimea, all in the first part of Sergei Loban's dilogy. - Love. This is a performance not to be missed! A love story between a fragile ...

#6
Russian Cyberpunk Farm

Russian Cyberpunk Farm

2020★ 9.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Needle for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

They say that Russia is a technically backward country, there are no roads, robotics do not develop, rockets do not fly, and mail goes too long. It’s a bullshit....