If you loved Leaving Las Vegas, try Through the Olive Trees

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Through the Olive Trees has roughly 7.9× fewer votes than Leaving Las Vegas — 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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Leaving Las Vegas

1995 · dir. Mike Figgis

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Through the Olive Trees

1995 · dir. Abbas Kiarostami

What they share

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

What Through the Olive Trees is

A movie about making a movie about making a movie, so at least one of them might work out. A director recasts a scene with a young man opposite a woman from his past, and the line between performance and reality gets sticky. The romance never quite catches fire, but the awkward silence afterward feels oddly earned.

If you loved Leaving Las Vegas, try Through the Olive Trees

Leaving Las Vegas

Through the Olive Trees

What they share

What Through the Olive Trees is

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