Movies Like Aferim! (2015)

Aferim! is a 2015 drama, history film from Radu Jude with a MovieMagicScore of 7.3/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with The Crazy Stranger and Bandyta.

Drama History

The Crazy Stranger

1998

A man is looking for a singer he had heard on cassette. He finds much more.

7.5

MagicScore

Bandyta

1997

Shipped off to a Romanian orphanage to finish his sentence, a British criminal finds romance but also discovers corruption inside the facility.

5.6

MagicScore

Don't Look Up

2009

While filming in Transylvania, a crew unearths celluloid images of a woman’s murder and unleashes the wrath of evil spirits.

3.7

MagicScore

The Gypsy Camp Vanishes Into the Blue

1976

This colourful, music-filled and sensual melodrama based on early stories by Maxim Gorky tells the fatal love story between the beautiful and rebellious girl Rada and the handsome horse thief Zobar. The story is set in early 20th century Bessarabia, now part of Moldova, then belonging to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

6.2

MagicScore

The Peasants

2023

Peasant girl Jagna is forced to marry the much older, wealthy farmer Boryna, despite her love for his son Antek. With time, Jagna becomes the object of envy and disdain with the villagers and she must fight to preserve her independence.

7.5

MagicScore

Hamilton

2025

Presenting the tale of American founding father Alexander Hamilton, this filmed version of the original Broadway smash hit is the story of America then, told by America now.

7.4

MagicScore

That Hamilton Woman

1941

The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars.

7.1

MagicScore

Anna Karenina

2012

In Imperial Russia, Anna, the wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets the charming cavalry officer Vronsky to whom she is immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.

6.7

MagicScore

Madame Bovary

1991

Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous debt and pursues scandalous sexual liaisons with absolute abandon. However, when her volatile lifestyle catches up to her, the lives of everyone around her are endangered.

6.3

MagicScore

#10

The Piano

1993

When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.

7.4

MagicScore

#11

Anna Karenina

1997

Anna Karenina, the wife of a Russian imperial minister, creates a high-society scandal by an affair with Count Vronsky, a dashing cavalry officer in 19th-century St. Petersburg.

6.0

MagicScore

#12

Anna Karenina

1967

The plot of the film is the love of a married woman, Anna Karenina, and a young officer, Aleksei Vronsky. Anna leaves the family in search of happiness to her beloved person. She has to take a very serious step in her life - to part with her son. The attitude of the high society towards her is changing. All this brings a lot of pain and humiliation to the main character. The tragic story of love and betrayal, the fate of a woman, for the sake of passion who decided to change her life irrevocably.

5.4

MagicScore

#13

Bel Ami

2012

Georges Duroy travels through 1890s Paris, from cockroach ridden garrets to opulent salons, using his wits and powers of seduction to rise from poverty to wealth, from a prostitute’s embrace to passionate trysts with wealthy beauties, in a world where politics and media jostle for influence, where sex is power and celebrity an obsession.

5.3

MagicScore

#14

Bram Stoker's Dracula

1992

Centuries-old vampire Count Dracula travels to Victorian London, where he becomes obsessed with Mina Murray—the fiancée of his solicitor, Jonathan Harker—believing her to be the reincarnation of his long-lost love.

7.4

MagicScore

#15

Papusza

2013

The rise and fall of the most distinguished Polish-Gypsy poetess Bronislawa Wajs, widely known as Papusza, and her relationship with her discoverer, writer Jerzy Ficowski.

7.8

MagicScore

#16

Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress

1957

After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean climate to rest. The young empress’ mother takes her from Austria to recover in Madeira.

7.2

MagicScore

#17

Fjord

2026

Following the deaths of Mihai's parents, Mihai and Lisbeth Gheorghiu leave their life behind in Romania and move with their children to a remote village in Norway, hoping to rebuild their lives near Lisbeth's family. There, they grow close to their neighbors, the Halbergs, whose warmth gives them hope for a fresh start. But the fragile peace begins to unravel when the Gheorghiu family’s young daughter, Elia, arrives at school covered in bruises.

7.2

MagicScore

#18

The New Year That Never Came

2024

The New Year That Never Came is a tragicomedy whose action takes place in a single day, before the counter-revolution of 1989, in which the characters search for normality, safety, love, freedom and meaning in an absurd world.

7.2

MagicScore

#19

Beyond the Hills

2012

Alina returns to Romania from Germany, hoping to bring Voichita—the only person in the world she loves and was loved by—back with her. But Voichita has found God, and God is the hardest lover of all to best.

7.1

MagicScore

#20

Asphalt Tango

1996

A desperate husband chases a bus full of beautiful women headed for Paris, France.

6.9

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Aferim!?

The top films similar to Aferim! by MovieMagicScore are The Crazy Stranger (7.5), Bandyta (5.6), Don't Look Up (3.7). Each shares drama/history themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Aferim! worth watching?

Aferim! holds a MovieMagicScore of 7.3/10 from 111 viewer ratings, putting it among the better-reviewed titles in its genre.

What kind of movie is Aferim!?

Aferim! (2015) is a drama, history film directed by Radu Jude, starring Teodor Corban, Mihai Comanoiu, Toma Cuzin.

Where can I find more recommendations like Aferim!?

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About movies like Aferim!

This ranked list pairs Aferim! (2015), a drama and history film from Radu Jude, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Teodor Corban take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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