If you loved High Strung, try Beyond the Hills

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Beyond the Hills has roughly 4.5× fewer votes than High Strung — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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High Strung

2016 · dir. Michael Damian

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Beyond the Hills

2012 · dir. Cristian Mungiu

What they share

Theysit in Drama / Romance territory. If that's the register that drew you to High Strung, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Beyond the Hills is

Here's a film that understands the assignment. A young woman returns to her native Romania to retrieve her childhood friend from a remote Orthodox convent. Her friend, now a nun, resists the pull of secular life. It's bleak, patient, and possibly the best Romanian film about exorcism you'll see this week.

If you loved High Strung, try Beyond the Hills

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What they share

What Beyond the Hills is

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