Movies Like Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
If you liked Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (1975), a drama movie directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Natural Born Killers (1994)
★ 7/10Also dramaTwo victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.
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The Seventh Continent (1989)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaChronicles three years of a middle-class family seemingly caught up in their daily routines, troubled only by minor incidents. Behind their apparent calm and repetitive existence, however, they're planning something…
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M (1931)
★ 8.1/10Also dramaIn this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he…
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Good (2008)
★ 6/10Also dramaWhen John Halder's latest novel is enlisted by powerful political figures in the Nazi party to push their agenda, his career and social standing instantly advance. But after learning of the Reich's horrific plans for…
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The American Friend (1977)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaTom 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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The Good German (2006)
★ 5.8/10Also dramaAn American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in a murder mystery surrounding a dead GI who washes up at a lakeside mansion during the Potsdam negotiations between…
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Love in Thoughts (2004)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaA posthumous look at the last days of Guenther's life as he, his best friend, and his sister let loose on a four-day binge of alcohol, drugs, and sex.
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Network (1976)
★ 7.8/10Also dramaWhen veteran anchorman Howard Beale is forced to retire his 25-year post because of his age, he announces to viewers that he will kill himself during his farewell broadcast. Network executives rethink their decision…
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Ghosts (2005)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaNina, a mentally ill teenage orphan, starts a new job as a garden cleaner when she meets Toni. They fall in love but soon Toni starts betraying Nina. Meanwhile, Francoise is picked up at a Berlin psychiatric hospital…
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Fourteen Hours (1951)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaA young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of a building with the intention of committing suicide. A policeman…
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The Lives of Others (2006)
★ 8/10Also dramaIn 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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The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
★ 7/10Also dramaWhen German police viciously quell a protest against the shah of Iran, popular journalist Ulrike Meinhof rebels against her dishonest marriage, walks away from her children and joins radical anarchist Andreas Baader…
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Valkyrie (2008)
★ 7/10Also dramaWounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events…
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Destiny (1921)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaAs a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and sequestered behind a huge doorless, windowless wall. The woman poisons herself in order to join him and is met by Death, who…
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Lola (1981)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaGermany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants money, property, and love. Pitting a corrupt building contractor against…
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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975)
★ 7/10Also dramaAfter a chance encounter with a wanted man, a woman is harassed by the police and press until she takes violent action.
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Despair (1978)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaBerlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his temper more and more every day when dealing with his workers and other…
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The Thing with Feathers (2025)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaFollowing the death of his wife, a young father's hold on reality crumbles, and a strange presence begins to stalk him from the shadowy recesses of the apartment he shares with his two young sons.
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Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaSet during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his children.
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Anniversary (2025)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaA close-knit family is caught in the turmoil of a controversial rising movement known as "The Change.” Ellen and Paul witness their lives fall apart when Ellen's former student Liz reappears and starts dating their…