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10 Best Movies Like When Fear Eats the Soul

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

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#1
Hungry Hearts

Hungry Hearts

2015★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When Fear Eats the Soul for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance....

#2
Lux Æterna

Lux Æterna

2020★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When Fear Eats the Soul for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Charlotte Gainsbourg agrees to play a witch condemned to be burned at the stake in the first film directed by Béatrice Dalle. But the chaotic production, technical problems, and ps...

#3
Dossier 51

Dossier 51

1978★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When Fear Eats the Soul for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A French diplomat is surveilled by a secret service to find a weakness for political control, his private life becoming 'File No. 51'....

#4
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When Fear Eats the Soul 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...

#5
The Girl in the Book

The Girl in the Book

2015★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When Fear Eats the Soul for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present....

#6
The Last Woman

The Last Woman

1976★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When Fear Eats the Soul for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Psychological drama of the compelling relationship between a young French engineer and the girl he takes into his home after his wife has left him with their baby son....

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