15 Movies Like Red Apples
Loved Red Apples? 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.
Girl in the Box
The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Red Apples.
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 Red Apples.
Reading Lolita in Tehran
In revolutionary Iran, as fundamentalists tighten their grip on society, a professor secretly gathers seven of her most dedicated female students to read and discuss forbidden classics of Western literature, including Lolita and Pride and Prejudice. Based on the bestselling memoir by Azar Nafisi. A film by Eran Riklis starring Golshifteh Farahani (Paterson), Zar Amir (Holy Spider), and Mina Kavani (No Bears).
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Red Apples.
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 Red Apples.
The Young One
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Red Apples.
Hands of Stone
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Red Apples.
Lucky Them
More interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug has one last chance to prove her value to her magazine’s editor: a no-stone-unturned search to discover what really happened to long lost rock god, Matt Smith, who also happens to be her ex-boyfriend. Teaming up with an eccentric amateur documentary filmmaker, Ellie hits the road in search of answers.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Red Apples.
Iron Jawed Angels
Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Red Apples.
Graduation
After his daughter is assaulted and left with an injury that may jeopardize her opportunity to study in the UK, a Romanian doctor decides to do whatever it takes to secure her future.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Red Apples.
Normal
A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Red Apples.
The Girl in the Book
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Red Apples.
Holy Lands
When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks his family and his new neighbours. Back in New York, Harry’s ex-wife Monica is trying to manage the lives of their adult children, Annabelle and David, as well as her own.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Red Apples.
The Safety of Objects
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Red Apples.
A Dry White Season
During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Red Apples.
Kontinental '25
Orsolya is a bailiff in Cluj, the main city in Transylvania. One day she has to evict a homeless man from a cellar, an action with tragic consequences that triggers a moral crisis which Orsolya must weather as best she can.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Red Apples.