Movies like In a Year with 13 Moons (1978)
The best movies like In a Year with 13 Moons (1978) are Fox and His Friends (1975), Fear of Fear (1976) and Chinese Roulette (1977). If In a Year with 13 Moons hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedAli: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)7.7/10 from 475 votes
- NewestBerlin Alexanderplatz (2020)Released 2020
- In GermanFox and His Friends (1975)Also in German
Fox and His Friends (1975)
Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. He enters an abusive relationship with wealthy industrialist Eugen in an attempt to climb the social ladder. His desperation for love and affection soon spirals into tragedy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFear of Fear (1976)
After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from postpartum depression before inexplicably falling into a continually misdiagnosed mental state, befuddling her relatives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Chinese Roulette (1977)
Ariane and Gerhard Christ, a wealthy Munich couple, plan for the weekend on separate trips, lying to the other about their trysts. However, their itineraries are complicated when they both arrive at the family's country home with their respective lovers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to navigate the difficult post-war years alone.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisJail Bait (1973)
In a small German town, a 14-year-old girl's relationship with an older man draws scrutiny and leads to legal consequences, reflecting the constraints of their social surroundings.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Lola (1981)
Germany 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 the new straight-arrow building commissioner, Lola launches an outrageous plan to elevate herself in a world where everything, and everyone, is for sale. Shot in childlike candy colors, Fassbinder’s homage to Josef von Sternberg’s classic The Blue Angel stands as a satiric tribute to capitalism.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Merchant of Four Seasons (1971)
Hans is a street fruit peddler and born loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to turn to drinking and violence. After recovering from a debilitating heart attack, his business finally begins to take off. However, the more he becomes a credit to his family, the more depressed he becomes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI Only Want You to Love Me (1976)
Peter grew up during the economic miracle, bereft of parental care and love. Learning early on that interpersonal relationships are based on the principles of exchange or purchase, he abides by these rules and gives generous presents to his family and his wife, Erika. But when he is unable to keep up this lifestyle, his story takes a horrendous turn...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Woyzeck (1979)
Having fathered an illegitimate child with his lover, Marie, feckless soldier Franz Woyzeck takes odd jobs around his small town to provide some extra money for them. One job is volunteering for experiments conducted by a local doctor, who puts Woyzeck on a diet of peas. This serves to drive him close to madness, and the discovery that Marie is involved in an affair with the local drum major exacerbates the situation. Pushed too far, Woyzeck resorts to violence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMother Küsters Goes to Heaven (1975)
Frau Emma Küsters prepares dinner late one seemingly-ordinary afternoon in her seemingly-ordinary Frankfurt kitchen. She wants to add canned sausages to the stew; her irritating daughter-in-law thinks otherwise. But the point is moot: Ernst Küsters has not only murdered the personnel director at the soap factory where he's employed but succeeded that by committing suicide.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Wrong Move (1975)
Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother gives him a ticket to Bonn, telling him to live. On the train he meets an older man, an athlete in the 1936 Olympics, and his mute teen companion, Mignon. She's an acrobat in market squares for spare change.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI Was, I Am, I Will Be (2019)
While Kurdish gigolo Baran dreams of a future in Europe, German pilot Marion is struggling to come to terms with her cancer diagnosis. When the two meet at the Turkish holiday resort of Marmaris, they engage in a kind of double-cross and decide to enter into a sham marriage. After a promising beginning, a shared future seems well within their reach. But things turn out not to be quite as simple as that.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975)
After a chance encounter with a wanted man, a woman is harassed by the police and press until she takes violent action.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisKatzelmacher (1969)
A group of young slackers spend most of their time hanging out in front of a Munich apartment building. When a Greek immigrant named Jorgos moves in, however, their aimless lives are shaken up. Soon, new tensions arise both within the group and with Jorgos.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAli: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she goes to a bar frequented by Arab immigrants and strikes up a friendship with middle-aged mechanic Ali. Their relationship soon develops into something more, and Emmi's family and neighbors criticize their spontaneous marriage. Soon Emmi and Ali are forced to confront their own insecurities about their future.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Third Generation (1979)
A wildly anarchic satire of guerrilla terrorism in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which uses them to justify its authoritarian policies.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNot Reconciled (1965)
A story about the continuity and collapse of history, the power of suppression, and the terror of reconciliation; loyalty, treason and revenge. In a brave cinematic game, Heinrich Böll’s story Billiards at Half-Past Nine is split up into cracks, blocks, breaks and sudden turns, as the life story of a German family, covering numerous generations, is propelled forward.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Heart of Glass (1976)
A small Bavarian village is renowned for its "Ruby Glass" glass blowing works. When the foreman of the works dies suddenly without revealing the secret of the Ruby Glass, the town slides into a deep depression, and the owner of the glassworks becomes obssessed with the lost secret.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTicket of No Return (1979)
A sartorially resplendent woman of few words arrives in Berlin with plans to live out the rest of her days as a drunkard.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Seventh Continent (1989)
Chronicles 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 much more sinister.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLove Is Colder Than Death (1970)
Small-time pimp Franz is torn between his mistress and Bruno, the gangster sent after him by a shady crime syndicate he has refused to join.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCracks in the Shell (2012)
An insecure drama student is given the lead role in a play by her director, but the role she is supposed to play is at odds with her real personality. The fusion of her stage persona and her real life persona becomes a psychological tour de force for the young woman, changing her private life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Marianne and Juliane (1981)
Germany, 1968: The priest's daughters Marianna and Juliane both fight for changes in society, like making abortion legal. However their means are totally different: while Juliane's committed as a reporter, her sister joins a terroristic organization. After she's caught by the police and put into isolation jail, Juliane remains as her last connection to the rest of the world. Although she doesn't accept her sister's arguments and her boyfriend Wolfgang doesn't want her to, Juliane keeps on helping her sister. She begins to question the way her sister is treated.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBaal (1970)
An exploration of the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Martha (1974)
After the death of her abusive father, lonely librarian Martha finds herself caught up in a strange, sadomasochistic relationship with a monstrous husband whom she begins to suspect may be trying to murder her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCoup de Grâce (1976)
A countess loves her brother's Prussian-officer friend in the 1919 Baltic area.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Marquise of O (1976)
A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Master Builder (2014)
A successful, ego-maniacal architect who has spent a lifetime bullying his wife, employees and mistresses wants to make peace as his life approaches its final act.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Berlin Alexanderplatz (2020)
In 2015, thirty year old refugee Francis, the sole survivor of a boat that illegally crossed the Mediterranean, is drawn into Berlin's seedy underbelly.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBoys Don't Cry (1999)
A young transgender man explores his gender identity and searches for love in rural Nebraska.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like In a Year with 13 Moons?
The closest matches to In a Year with 13 Moons are Fox and His Friends (1975), Fear of Fear (1976) and Chinese Roulette (1977). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after In a Year with 13 Moons?
People who watched In a Year with 13 Moons most often go on to Fox and His Friends (1975), Fear of Fear (1976) and Chinese Roulette (1977).
What is the highest-rated movie like In a Year with 13 Moons?
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974), rated 7.7/10 by 475 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like In a Year with 13 Moons?
Berlin Alexanderplatz (2020) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there German movies like In a Year with 13 Moons?
Yes: Fox and His Friends (1975), Fear of Fear (1976) and Chinese Roulette (1977).
How are movies similar to In a Year with 13 Moons chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside In a Year with 13 Moons, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.