Movies Like Baal

Ranked by shared directors, cast, themes, genre, and era — not just generic recommendations.

Gods of the Plague

1970·1h 31m·★ 6.4·Rainer Werner Fassbinder

3 shared cast incl. Hanna Schygulla & Margarethe von TrottaDP: Dietrich Lohmann

Katzelmacher

1969·1h 30m·★ 6.8·Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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Beware of a Holy Whore

1971·1h 43m·★ 6.6·Rainer Werner Fassbinder

3 shared cast incl. Hanna Schygulla & Rainer Werner Fassbinder

The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach

1971·1h 42m·★ 7.0·Volker Schlöndorff

Both star Margarethe von Trotta & Rainer Werner FassbinderDir. Volker Schlöndorff

A Free Woman

1972·1h 40m·★ 6.9·Volker Schlöndorff

Both star Margarethe von Trotta & Walter SedlmayrDir. Volker Schlöndorff

Love Is Colder Than Death

1970·1h 28m·★ 6.4·Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Both star Hanna Schygulla & Rainer Werner FassbinderDP: Dietrich Lohmann

12 Angry Men

1957·1h 37m·★ 9.0·Sidney Lumet

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Amadeus

1984·2h 40m·★ 8.4·Miloš Forman

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High Noon

1952·1h 25m·★ 7.9·Fred Zinnemann

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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

1966·2h 11m·★ 8.0·Mike Nichols

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

1958·1h 48m·★ 7.9·Richard Brooks

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10 Things I Hate About You

1999·1h 37m·★ 7.4·Gil Junger

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A Few Good Men

1992·2h 18m·★ 7.8·Rob Reiner

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Pandora's Box

1929·2h 21m·★ 7.7·G.W. Pabst

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Meet Joe Black

1998·2h 58m·★ 7.2·Martin Brest

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Driving Miss Daisy

1989·1h 39m·★ 7.3·Bruce Beresford

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Theorem

1968·1h 35m·★ 7.0·Pier Paolo Pasolini

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Romeo + Juliet

1996·2h·★ 6.7·Baz Luhrmann

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Prospero's Books

1991·2h 6m·★ 6.8·Peter Greenaway

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Dancing at Lughnasa

1998·1h 36m·★ 6.3·Pat O'Connor

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