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10 Best Movies Like The Pension

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

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#1
Stranger Than Fiction

Stranger Than Fiction

2006★ 7.3

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

Harold Crick is a lonely IRS agent whose mundane existence is transformed when he hears a mysterious voice narrating his life....

#2
Umberto D.

Umberto D.

1952★ 7.9

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

When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady demands her 15,000-lire rent by th...

#3
Gemma Bovery

Gemma Bovery

2014★ 6.2

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

Martin, an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster passionate about Gustave Flaubert who settled into a Norman village as a baker, sees an English couple moving into a small farm nearby. N...

#4
Woman Times Seven

Woman Times Seven

1967★ 6.2

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

Seven mini-stories of adultery: a widow misbehaves at her husband's funeral, a wife turns to streetwalking for revenge, a prudish girl surprises, a neglected wife vies for her husb...

#5
Waiting Women

Waiting Women

1952★ 6.4

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

The four wives of four brothers share stories of their marriages as they wait for their husbands in a small, secluded cottage....

#6
Euphoria

Euphoria

2018★ 6.5

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

Matteo is a young successful businessman, audacious, charming and energetic. Ettore instead, is a calm, righteous, second grade teacher always living in the shadows, still in the s...