If you loved Never Look Away, try The Lives of Others

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, and they both carry the foreign gem mood tag, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Never Look Away, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What The Lives of Others is

East Berlin, winter, a typewriter clicks. A Stasi officer surveils a playwright and his actress lover, in a world of forced smiles and hidden ears. Von Donnersmarck imbues a Cold War thriller with quiet nuance.

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