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

Vanya on 42nd Street
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Philistines 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 Joy
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Philistines 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...

Babylon
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Philistines for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

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

My Friend Ivan Lapshin
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Philistines 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....

Come Sunday
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Philistines for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell....