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10 Best Movies Like The Stolen Children

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

#1
Red Desert

Red Desert

1964★ 7.3

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

In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic accident, drifts into an affair with a friend of her husband....

#2
The Scent of Green Papaya

The Scent of Green Papaya

1993★ 7.0

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

A young Vietnamese peasant girl named Mùi becomes the servant of a house in pre-unification Saigon....

#3
Il Grido

Il Grido

1957★ 7.5

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

A sugar-refinery worker flees his Northern Italy town after a woman refuses his marriage proposal....

#4
Lord of the Ants

Lord of the Ants

2022★ 7.2

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

Based on true events of the late 60s in Italy, poet, playwright and myrmecologist Aldo Braibanti is prosecuted and sentenced to prison for the love he shares with his barely-of-age...

#5
August Vacation

August Vacation

1996★ 6.8

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

Like every August, journalist Sandro, his family and acquaintances vacation on the island of Ventotene. This time, however, they find out the house next door has been rented to a l...

#6
Another Woman

Another Woman

1988★ 6.8

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

Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all tha...