Movies like Faust
If Faust's mix of small town, germany and love at first sight stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Faust's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Tin Drum
1979 · Directed by Volker Schlöndorff · 162 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: germany · Also 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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Edward Scissorhands
1990 · Directed by Tim Burton · 105 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: small town, love at first sight · Also fantasy and drama
A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.
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FX's A Christmas Carol
2019 · Directed by Nick Murphy · 173 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: 19th century · Also drama and fantasy · From the same decade (2010s)
London, 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of Christmas Eve night he is visited by three ghosts to show him his past, present and future.
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Fallen
1998 · Directed by Gregory Hoblit · 124 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: devil · Also drama and fantasy
Homicide detective John Hobbes witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese. Soon after the execution the killings start again, and they are very similar to Reese's style.
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It
2017 · Directed by Andy Muschietti · 135 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: small town, death of brother · From the same decade (2010s)
In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.
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Sleepy Hollow
1999 · Directed by Tim Burton · 105 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: small town, 19th century
Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitations of three people – murders the townsfolk attribute to a…
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The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
1974 · Directed by Werner Herzog · 109 min7.3
Why you'll like itAlso a German drama
The film follows Kaspar Hauser, who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat…
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The Blue Angel
1930 · Directed by Josef von Sternberg · 108 min7.3
Why you'll like itAlso a German drama
Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in an attempt to catch them there.
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The American Friend
1977 · Directed by Wim Wenders · 125 min7.1
Why you'll like itAlso a German drama
Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture framer Jonathan Zimmerman. When Ripley is asked by gangster Raoul Minot to kill a rival, he suggests Zimmerman, and the…
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Dragonfly
2002 · Directed by Tom Shadyac · 104 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: doctor
A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patient's near death experiences.