15 Movies Like Aferim!
Loved Aferim!? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.
Addicted
A gallerist risks her family and flourishing career when she enters into an affair with a talented painter and slowly loses control of her life.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Aferim!.
Deep Water
A well-to-do husband who allows his wife to have affairs in order to avoid a divorce becomes a prime suspect in the disappearance of her lovers.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Aferim!.
House of Gucci
When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel the family legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately… murder.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Aferim!.
The Unforgivable
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Aferim!.
Truth & Treason
When loyalty to country becomes loyalty to a lie, one teen risks everything to expose the truth. With the Gestapo closing in, he must decide what it really means to be a good German.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Aferim!.
Flesh + Blood
A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble Lord who cheated them by kidnapping his son's fiancée. As the plague and warfare cut a swathe of destruction throughout the land, the mercenaries hole up in a castle and await their fate.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Aferim!.
The Crush
A precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Aferim!.
A Higher Law
Ecaterina, a high school Religion teacher and wife of the town priest, gets involved with Iuliu, a 16-year-old student with a troubled past. Ecaterina tries to keep him under control, but she loses her own sense of control in this process.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Aferim!.
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Two college roommates have 24 hours to make the ultimate choice as they finalize arrangements for a black market abortion.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Aferim!.
Titus
Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. Shakespeare's goriest and earliest tragedy.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Aferim!.
The Ledge
A thriller in which a battle of philosophies between a fundamentalist Christian and an atheist who shares an apartment with a gay friend escalates into a lethal battle of wills.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Aferim!.
Nightwatching
An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting The Night Watch.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Aferim!.
Adulterers
On a steamy New Orleans afternoon, Sam Deuprey decides to surprise his beautiful wife, Ashley, for their anniversary and comes home early. But Ashley is not alone in the bedroom. She and her lover, Damien are about to learn how far a jealous husband will go.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Aferim!.
Auto Focus
A successful TV star during the 1960s, former "Hogan's Heroes" actor Bob Crane projects a wholesome family-man image, but this front masks his persona as a sex addict who records and photographs his many encounters with women, often with the help of his seedy friend, John Henry Carpenter. This biographical drama reveals how Crane's double life takes its toll on him and his family, and ultimately contributes to his death.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Aferim!.
Effie Gray
A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Aferim!.