15 Movies Like Ballad of a Hussar
Loved Ballad of a Hussar? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.
#1
Your Heart Will Be Broken
High school student Polina is saved from bullying at her new school and makes a deal with the main bully Bars: he must pretend to be her boyfriend and protect her, and she must do everything he says. During this game, the couple develops real feelings, but her family and classmates have reasons to separate the lovers.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Ballad of a Hussar.
#2
You Drive Me Crazy
Alisa moves into a spacious apartment in St. Petersburg, where the mirror starts to malfunction, showing the young lodger a parallel reality of the same apartment. Only it is not Alisa who lives in this parallel reality, but the party animal Ivan. Will the young people be able to recognize true love and will they be able to unite their worlds in order to meet in reality and simply touch each other?
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Ballad of a Hussar.
#3
French Girl
Sweet Gordon, an affable English teacher in Brooklyn, has beaten the odds; a French Girl has fallen in love with him and he’s fallen even harder back. But their future is thrown into limbo when she interviews for an executive chef position in her hometown of Quebec City. To Gordon’s dismay her future boss also happens to be her former lover, a celebrity Chef with oceanic eyes and a hit TV show. Good luck Gordon.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Ballad of a Hussar.
#4
Come and See
The invasion of a village in Belarus by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Ballad of a Hussar.
#5
The Ascent
During a freezing WWII winter, two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the temperature, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Ballad of a Hussar.
#6
Russian Nymphet: Temptation
A Russian teen turns the tables on her fashion photographer. Suddenly he doesn't like being the one on camera!
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Ballad of a Hussar.
#7
¿Quieres ser mi hijo?
Lu, a conformist woman in her forties, learns that her 15-year partner has been having extramarital affairs. Starting from scratch, she gets involved in an unexpected relationship with a young womanizer.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Ballad of a Hussar.
#8
Sugar Baby
Love comes without asking. Often not to those, not so and not then. Can a genuine feeling survive when everything started wrong and the whole world is against it? Give up everything or give up? Burn or survive?
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Ballad of a Hussar.
#9
About Love
Beautiful Nina lives happily married, as she saw it, with intelligent Alexandr, professor of Sinology. But the debt for the mortgage begins to disturb the relationship of spouses. One day she meets Sergey, the head of the bank where her husband has debt, and so begins their passionate relationships. The story of the relationship with married Sergey hardly promises happiness, but Nina realizes that for the first time she feels true love.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Ballad of a Hussar.
#10
Battle for Sevastopol
The story of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the most successful female sniper in history.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Ballad of a Hussar.
#11
Maintenance Required
Charlie, the fiercely independent owner of an all-female mechanic shop, is forced to reevaluate her future when a flashy corporate competitor moves in across the street. Seeking comfort, she turns to an anonymous online confidant - unaware she's confiding in Beau, the very rival threatening her business. As sparks fly both online and off, the truth threatens to blow everything apart.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Ballad of a Hussar.
#12
Chernobyl: Abyss
The aftermath of a shocking explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station made hundreds of people sacrifice their lives to clean up the site of the catastrophe and to successfully prevent an even bigger disaster that could have turned a large part of the European continent into an uninhabitable exclusion zone. This is their story.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Ballad of a Hussar.
#13
Guardians
During the Cold War, an organization called "Patriot" created a superhero squad, which includes members of multiple Soviet republics. For years, the heroes had to hide their identities, but, in hard times, they must show themselves again.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Ballad of a Hussar.
#14
Battleship Potemkin
A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Ballad of a Hussar.
#15
Two Prosecutors
In 1937, amidst Stalin's Great Terror, a newly appointed prosecutor for the USSR is made aware of alleged corruption in the Secret Police, and takes it upon himself to investigate.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Ballad of a Hussar.