Movies like Distant Lights
If Distant Lights's mix of individual, prostitute and jealousy stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Distant Lights's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Lives of Others
2006 · Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck · 137 min8.0
Why you'll like itWith Herbert Knaup · Also a German drama · From the same decade (2000s)
In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes unexpectedly sympathetic to the couple, and faces conflicting…
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Stroszek
1977 · Directed by Werner Herzog · 108 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: prostitute · Also a German drama
Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician.
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
2016 · Directed by David Yates · 133 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: robbery, escape
In 1926, Newt Scamander arrives at the Magical Congress of the United States of America with a magically expanded briefcase, which houses a number of dangerous creatures and their habitats.
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Christiane F.
1981 · Directed by Uli Edel · 131 min7.3
Why you'll like itAlso a German drama
A teen girl in 1970s Berlin becomes addicted to heroin. Everything in her life slowly begins to distort and disappear as she befriends a small crew of junkies and falls in love with a drug-abusing male prostitute.
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Enter the Void
2010 · Directed by Gaspar Noé · 161 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: prostitute
This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar, a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda.
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The Tin Drum
1979 · Directed by Volker Schlöndorff · 162 min7.0
Why you'll like itAlso a German drama
In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.
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In the Aisles
2018 · Directed by Thomas Stuber · 125 min6.9
Why you'll like itAlso a German drama
Christian, a reclusive young man from Leipzig, gets a job working the night shift at a big-box store. He's trained to stocks goods and operate a forklift by Bruno, a wistful former truck driver, who introduces…
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The Drop
2014 · Directed by Michaël R. Roskam · 106 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: robbery
Bob Saginowski finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood's past where friends, families, and foes all work together to make a living - no…
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Eden
2013 · Directed by Megan Griffiths · 98 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: escape
After a night out with friends, Hyun Jae accepts a late night ride home from a young fire fighter. What begins as a night of promise quickly turns into a nightmare when she is abducted and imprisoned outside Las Vegas…
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Crimes of Passion
1984 · Directed by Ken Russell · 107 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: prostitute
Fashion designer Joanna Crane leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a prostitute who's attracted the attention of a sexually frustrated private detective, and a psychopathic priest in possession of a…