Movies like The Edge of Heaven: 20 to watch next
If you loved The Edge of Heaven (2007) — a drama film directed by Fatih Akin — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of The Edge of Heaven most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like prison, dying and death and mother. 4 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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Blonde Venus 1932★ 6.8
Shares: Drama
In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retired German entertainer returns to the cabaret as Blonde Venus and catches the eye of a wealthy politician.
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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Short Sharp Shock 1998★ 6.7
Shares: Drama
Gabriel, Bobby and Costa are old friends from Altona, a multicultural hood in Hamburg. Just out of prison, Gabriel wants to turn his back on crime, but the others continue to operate as petty criminals. Friendships are tested as the trio navigate a dark world of mafia bosses and deals gone wrong.
Stream in India on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel
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In a Year with 13 Moons 1978★ 6.6
Shares: Drama
Elvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She has undergone a sex change for a romantic interest who has abandoned her, and she now must struggle to reconcile her past life with her present identity.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Import/Export 2007★ 6.8
Shares: Drama
A nurse from Ukraine searches for a better life in the West, while an unemployed security guard from Austria heads East for the same reason. Both are looking for work, a new beginning, an existence, struggling to believe in themselves, to find a meaning in life...
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Mammal 2016★ 6.3
Shares: Drama
After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the escalation of her ex-husband's grieving rage.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Jack the Ripper 1976★ 5.8
Shares: Drama
A serial killer whose mother was a prostitute starts killing streetwalkers as a way of paying back his mother for her abuse.
Stream in India on Artiflix, Plex
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The Free Will 2006★ 7.0
Shares: Drama
After nine years in psychiatric detention Theo, who has brutally assaulted and raped three women, is released. Living in a supervised community, he connects well with his social worker Sascha, finds a job at a print shop and even a girlfriend, Nettie, his principal's brittle and estranged daughter. But even though superficially everything seems to work out Theo's seething rage remains ready to erupt.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Crimes of Passion 1984★ 6.2
Shares: Drama
Fashion designer Joanna Crane leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a prostitute who's attracted the attention of a sexually frustrated private detective, and a psychopathic priest in possession of a murderous sex toy.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Luckiest Girl Alive 2022★ 6.5
Shares: Drama
A successful woman in New York City finds her life upended when she is forced to confront a dark truth that threatens to unravel her meticulously crafted life.
Stream in India on Netflix
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The Brave One 2007★ 6.6
Shares: Drama
A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Wasteman 2026★ 7.2
Shares: Drama
Taylor's hopes for a fresh start post-parole are jeopardised by cellmate Dee's arrival. As Dee takes Taylor under his wing, a vicious attack tests their bond, forcing Taylor to choose between protecting Dee and his own chances at freedom.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Extremities 1986★ 6.2
Shares: Drama
A woman escapes from the man who is about to rape her, but leaves her purse behind. Afraid that her attacker might come after her, she goes to the police, but with no proof of the incident, they can do nothing. In fact, the man does use the information in her bag and comes to her apartment with the intent of rape, but she sprays him in the face with insect repellent, and then holds him captive. She is then faced with deciding whether to go to the police who might not believe her and release him, or to kill him.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Stoning of Soraya M. 2009★ 7.7
Shares: Drama
In 1986 Iran, Sahebjam, whose car breaks down in a remote village, enters into a conversation with Zahra, who relays to him the story about her niece, Soraya, whose arranged marriage to an abusive tyrant ended in tragedy.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Gummo 1997★ 6.6
Shares: Drama
Teenagers Solomon and Tummler kill time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recovered from the tornado that ravaged the community in the 1970s.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Natural Born Killers 1994★ 7.0
Shares: Drama
Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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American History X 1998★ 8.3
Shares: Drama
Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader of a violent white supremacist gang that committed acts of racial crime throughout L.A. and his actions greatly influenced Danny. Reformed and fresh out of prison, Derek severs contact with the gang and becomes determined to keep Danny from going down the same violent path as he did.
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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Paradise: Love 2012★ 6.6
Shares: Drama
On the beaches of Kenya they’re known as "Sugar Mamas" —European women who seek out African boys selling love to earn a living. Teresa, a 50-year-old Austrian and mother of a daughter entering puberty, travels to this vacation paradise, moving from beach to beach.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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A Good Woman Is Hard to Find 2019★ 6.1
Shares: Drama
The recently widowed mother of two, Sarah, is desperate to know who murdered her husband in front of her young son, rendering him mute. Coerced into helping a low-life drug dealer stash narcotics stolen from the local Mr. Big, she's forced into taking drastic action to protect her children, evolving from downtrodden submissive to take-charge vigilante.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now