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10 Best Movies Like Thorns

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

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#1
Qwerty

Qwerty

2012★ 6.4

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

The movie is a fictionalized account of a disgruntled cop who has been wrongly implicated in a torture video that went viral. It begins on his last night of duty, as he is about to...

#2
Family Diary

Family Diary

1962★ 7.0

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

Enrico is a struggling journalist in the Rome of 1945. He receives a phone call informing him that his younger brother Lorenzo has died. Enrico recalls their long and difficult rel...

#3
The Hidden Child

The Hidden Child

2021★ 6.5

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

Gabriele Santoro is a Professor of Pianoforte at the Music Conservatory San Pietro a Majella who lives in a working-class area of the city. One morning, while shaving his beard, th...

#4
Soldati - 365 all'alba

Soldati - 365 all'alba

1987★ 6.7

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

Claudio Scanna is a private in the Italian army: during his first night in a new military base he gets in a fight with senior recruits. Lieutenant Fili, Claudio's commanding office...

#5
Euphoria

Euphoria

2018★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Thorns 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...

#6
Balancing Act

Balancing Act

2013★ 6.7

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

Giulio suddenly finds himself having to change his life when his wife, after discovering his betrayal, asks for a separation and, suddenly, the reality around him is no longer the ...