Movies like Import/Export
The best movies like Import/Export (2007) are Even Dwarfs Started Small (1971), Paradise: Hope (2013) and The Forest for the Trees (2004). If Import/Export hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Seventh Continent (1989)7.5/10 from 377 votes
- Newest23 000 Lives (2026)Released 2026
- In GermanEven Dwarfs Started Small (1971)Also in German
Even Dwarfs Started Small (1971)
A group of tormented patients stage a coup at an oppressive, dismal asylum after they're not allowed out on an excursion.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisParadise: Hope (2013)
Her mother in Kenya, 13-year-old Melanie spends her summer vacation at a strict diet camp set in the Austrian countryside. Between workouts and nutrition classes, pillow fights and first cigarettes, she falls in love with a doctor 40 years her senior.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Forest for the Trees (2004)
As an awkward idealistic high school teacher begins her first job in the city, things turn out to be much tougher than she had imagined.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisParadise: Love (2012)
On the beaches of Kenya they’re known as "Sugar Mamas" —European women who seek out African boys selling love to earn a living. Teresa, a 50-year-old Austrian and mother of a daughter entering puberty, travels to this vacation paradise, moving from beach to beach.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisParadise: Faith (2013)
For Anna Maria, paradise lies with Jesus, and she devotes her time to door-to-door missionary work. One day after years of absence, her husband, an Egyptian Muslim confined to a wheelchair, comes home—and soon prayers are replaced by fighting.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWestern (2017)
A group of German construction workers set out for a foreign construction site in the Bulgarian province. The strange country awakens adventure feelings among the men. At the same time, they are confronted with their prejudices and mistrust. For two of the men, a nearby village becomes the stage for a competition for the recognition and favor of the village.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDog Days (2001)
Vignettes of the lives of several residents of a Vienna suburb during a heat wave.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRimini (2022)
Richie Bravo, once upon a time a successful pop star, chases after his faded fame in wintry Rimini. Trapped between permanent intoxication and concerts for busloads of tourists, his world starts to collapse when his adult daughter breaks into his life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSparta (2022)
Ewald moved to Romania years ago. Now in his 40s, he seeks a fresh start. Leaving his girlfriend, he moves to the hinterland. With young boys from the area, he transforms a decaying school into a fortress. The children enjoy a new, carefree existence. But the distrust of the villagers is soon awoken. And Ewald is forced to confront a truth he has long suppressed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAttenberg (2010)
Marina, 23, is growing up with her architect father in a prototype factory town by the sea. Finding the human species strange and repellent, she keeps her distance...that is until a stranger comes to town and challenges her to a foosball duel, on her own table. Her father, meanwhile, ritualistically prepares for his exit from the 20th century, which he considers to be "overrated."
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLand of Plenty (2004)
After living abroad, Lana returns to the United States, and finds that her uncle is a reclusive vagabond with psychic wounds from the Vietnam War.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDay & Night (2010)
An unreservedly matter-of-fact look at two young women who consider prostitution an adventure until reality catches up with them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Brothers of the Night (2016)
Soft boys by day, kings by night. The film follows a group of young Bulgarian Roma who come to Vienna looking for freedom and a quick buck. They sell their bodies as if that's all they had. What comforts them, so far from home, is the feeling of being together. But the nights are long and unpredictable.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Michael (2011)
Although to the outside world he seems like a perfectly normal insurance broker, Michael secretly keeps a 10-year-old boy locked in a room in his soundproof basement.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPalermo Shooting (2008)
After the wild lifestyle of a famous young German photographer almost gets him killed, he goes to Palermo, Sicily to take a break. Can the beautiful city and a beautiful local woman calm him down?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJerichow (2008)
In a small Northern German town, a dishonourably discharged Afghanistan veteran is offered a job as a deliveryman by an alcoholic Turkish entrepreneur, through which the former meets the latter's gorgeous wife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe 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 thisThe Chambermaid Lynn (2015)
Lynn Zapatek, a chambermaid in a large hotel, has a deathly fear of human interaction yet she craves intimacy. A chance encounter prompts her to emerge from her cocoon.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Little Thirteen (2012)
The everyday lives of teenagers, coming from various social backgrounds. For them, sexuality has become a substitute for love, resulting from emotional neglect.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisAlpine Fire (1985)
A year on an Alpine farm: an older couple have two children, Belli, who wanted to be a teacher, and the younger Franzi, deaf, and although he works like a man, child-like. Belli teaches him. In his work, he can become frustrated, so when he throws an expensive mower over a cliff in a fit of pique, his father banishes him to the outskirts of the farm, where he uses pubescent energy to break rocks and build walls and cairns. (It's the tradition of the father's family, called "The Irascibles" by neighbors, to spend puberty doing this.) Belli visits him and they begin sleeping together. By winter, the boy is back in the house and Belli is pregnant. Soon her parents must know.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Dogtooth (2009)
Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family abode is instantly assigned a new meaning. Hence 'the sea' refers to a large armchair and 'zombies' are little yellow flowers. Having invented a brother whom they claim to have ostracized for his disobedience, the uber-controlling parents terrorize their offspring into submission.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisUnveiled (2005)
Survival is not enough. Fariba Tabrizi has made it. Under peril of death she has fled from Iran. In Germany she has no alternative way of avoiding the threat of deportation other than to assume the identity of a deceased co-detainee. So what happens after a few month in which she has tried to come to terms with a situation which is actually an insufferable one for her? How does Fariba live not only in this external state of exile but also in an inner state of exile? The term "in orbit" is officially used by the UN to refer to asylum-seekers who find themselves orbiting around planet Earth because they can actually find legal domicile nowhere at all.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Angels with Dirty Wings (2009)
Three women - no moral. Morality is the excuse for those who don't dare to live their truth.Michaela, Gabriela and Lucy are angels of vice. On their motorbikes they ride through the countryside to live their pleasure. They could see a lot, but only see themselves. They call themselves angels but they are angels with dirty wings. To be a full member in the exile paradise of angels, Lucy has to prove herself and stand the tests. The new film of Roland Reber and Mira Gittner is an anthem of immorality. A holy song of egoism and a painful study about our time and a generation who rent their feelings.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Time of the Wolf (2003)
A middle-class family flees an unspecified disaster that has struck the city and takes refuge in their country home. They think this will allow them to escape the chaos, but they soon realize that getting away won’t be so easy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like this71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1995)
71 scenes revolving around multiple Viennese residents who are by chance involved with a senseless gun slaughter on Christmas Eve.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMiss Violence (2013)
On the day of her birthday, eleven-year-old Angeliki jumps off the balcony and falls to her death with a smile on her face. While the police and Social Services try to discover the reason for this apparent suicide, Angeliki's family keep insisting that it was an accident. What is the secret that young Angeliki took with her? Why does her family persist in trying to "forget" her and to move on with its life?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like this23 000 Lives (2026)
A group of young people sets sail for the Mediterranean to save the lives of refugees — a mission that puts their ideas of law and justice to the test.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTrafficked (2017)
In this story inspired by real characters, three girls from America, Nigeria and India are trafficked through an elaborate global network and enslaved in a Texas brothel, and must together attempt a daring escape to reclaim their freedom.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBerlin 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 thisThe Edge of Heaven (2007)
The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a prostitute forging a partnership, a young scholar reconciling his past, two young women falling in love, and a mother putting the shattered pieces of her life back together.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Import/Export?
The closest matches to Import/Export are Even Dwarfs Started Small (1971), Paradise: Hope (2013) and The Forest for the Trees (2004). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Import/Export?
People who watched Import/Export most often go on to Even Dwarfs Started Small (1971), Paradise: Hope (2013) and The Forest for the Trees (2004).
What is the highest-rated movie like Import/Export?
The Seventh Continent (1989), rated 7.5/10 by 377 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Import/Export?
23 000 Lives (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there German movies like Import/Export?
Yes: Even Dwarfs Started Small (1971), Paradise: Hope (2013) and The Forest for the Trees (2004).
How are movies similar to Import/Export chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Import/Export, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.