Movies like Import/Export: 20 to watch next
If you loved Import/Export (2007) — a drama film directed by Ulrich Seidl — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of Import/Export most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like exploitation, austria and sexual violence. 6 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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Joy 2019★ 5.9
Shares: Drama
Close to paying off her debts, a Nigerian sex worker in Austria coaches a reluctant novice, and assesses the risks of taking a faster path to freedom.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Joyless Street 1925★ 6.8
Shares: Drama
In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to better the lives of themselves and their families during the period of Austrian postwar hyperinflation.
Stream in India on JustWatch TV Beta
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Antares 2004★ 5.9
Shares: Drama
A deadly car crash sets off three parallel stories of women at crisis points, faltering behind the doors of the same, plain Vienna apartment block.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Berlin Alexanderplatz 2020★ 6.9
Shares: Drama
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.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Edge of Heaven 2007★ 7.2
Shares: Drama
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.
Stream in India on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel
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The Seventh Continent 1989★ 7.5
Shares: Drama
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.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden 2016★ 6.7
Shares: Drama
Vienna, Austria, 1910. The young painter Egon Schiele is a rising artist, provocative and free, whose work, characterized by eroticism, shocks as much as it fascinates art lovers.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance 1995★ 7.0
Shares: Drama
71 scenes revolving around multiple Viennese residents who are by chance involved with a senseless gun slaughter on Christmas Eve.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Dogville 2003★ 7.7
Shares: Drama
A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a price.
Stream in India on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel
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Night Always Comes 2025★ 6.1
Shares: Drama
Facing eviction in a city her family can no longer afford, a woman plunges into a desperate and increasingly dangerous all-night search to raise $25,000.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Girl in the Bunker 2018★ 7.1
Shares: Drama
When Elizabeth is abducted by a fugitive sexual predator, she realizes she must take matters into her own hands and plot her escape. Based on a true story.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Evilenko 2004★ 5.8
Shares: Drama
For years, Andrei Evilenko eluded the obsessive Detective Lesiev and the psychiatric profiler Aron Richter. Spurred on by his rabid fury at the gradual crumbling of his precious Soviet Union, Evilenko is a man who will live, die and kill as a communist.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Poker House 2008★ 6.2
Shares: Drama
Agnes and her two sisters struggle through a day in a home overrun by gamblers, thieves, and johns.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Stroszek 1977★ 7.3
Shares: Drama
Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck and they join his neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Òlòtūré 2019★ 6.3
Shares: Drama
In Lagos, Nigeria, young, naive Nigerian journalist Òlòtūré goes undercover to expose the shady underworld of human trafficking. Unused to this brutal environment, crawling with ruthless traders and pimps, Òlòtūré finds warmth and friendship with Blessing, Linda and Beauty, the prostitutes she lives with. However, she gets drawn into their lifestyle and finds it difficult to cope. In her quest to uncover the truth, she pays the ultimate price - one that takes her to the verge of no return.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl 1998★ 7.2
Shares: Drama
Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Skin Trade 2014★ 6.1
Shares: Drama
After his family is killed by a Serbian gangster with international interests. NYC detective Nick goes to S.E. Asia and teams up with a Thai detective to get revenge and destroy the syndicates human trafficking network.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Most Hated Woman in America 2017★ 6.1
Shares: Drama
The true story of Madalyn Murray O'Hair -- iconoclast, opportunist, and outspoken atheist -- from her controversial rise to her untimely demise.
Stream in India on Netflix
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The White Ribbon 2009★ 7.5
Shares: Drama
An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was struck by a series of strange events in the year leading up to WWI.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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All or Nothing 2002★ 7.1
Shares: Drama
Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and they lead joyless lives with their two children, Rachel, a cleaner, and Rory, who is unemployed and aggressive.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now