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10 Best Movies Like The White Devil

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

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#1
Life and a Day

Life and a Day

2016★ 7.9

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

Somaieh, the youngest daughter of an indigent family, is getting married and fear is overwhelming each and every member of the family regarding how to overcome their difficulties a...

#2
The Thief of Bagdad

The Thief of Bagdad

1924★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The White Devil for fans of Romance. It captures a similar heartwarming atmosphere.

A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess....

#3
About Elly

About Elly

2009★ 7.5

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

The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow travelers....

#4
Midnight Express

Midnight Express

1978★ 7.4

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

Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of a country. The courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two oppor...

#5
Close-Up

Close-Up

1990★ 7.9

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

This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf...

#6
The Stoning of Soraya M.

The Stoning of Soraya M.

2009★ 7.7

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

In 1986 Iran, Sahebjam, whose car breaks down in a remote village, enters into a conversation with Zahra, who relays to him the story about her niece, Soraya, whose arranged marria...

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