15 Movies Like Hard to Be a God
Loved Hard to Be a God? 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.

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 Hard to Be a God.

The Terminator
In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical hegemony. Meanwhile, the human-resistance movement dispatches a lone warrior to safeguard Sarah. Can he stop the virtually indestructible killing machine?
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Hard to Be a God.

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 Hard to Be a God.

Mirror
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Hard to Be a God.

Fib the Truth
A couple in love spends time away from civilization, but the sudden arrivals of the younger sister and then the girl's ex-boyfriend violate the country idyll.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Hard to Be a God.

Looper
In the year 2044, time travel has not yet been invented but in 30 years it will have been. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good until the day the mob decides to close the loop, sending back Joe's future self for assassination.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Hard to Be a God.

Naughty
In order to prevent the construction of a skyscraper in an urban forest, Elya, a young environmental activist, accepts a challenge from the mega wealthy developer: If after spending seven days with him, she doesn't fall for him, he'll stop the project. During this time of luxury and passion, Elya becomes increasingly attracted to him.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Hard to Be a God.

Fidelity
A successful obstetrician living a seemingly stable married life begins to question her relationship when emotional and physical intimacy fades. Suspecting her husband of betrayal, she seeks connection elsewhere, stepping into a hidden world that offers desire, control, and escape. As she navigates this parallel existence, the boundaries between loyalty, loneliness, and self-discovery slowly begin to blur.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Hard to Be a God.

Invasion
Two years after the fall of the alien ship, the life of a young woman from Moscow has been changed forever. Her growing powers are now at the focus of both human and celestial investigation: an alien force takes an interest in her, and will stop short of nothing, including an invasion. Can love and compassion save humanity, when faced with a much greater and more demanding test this time?
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Hard to Be a God.

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 Hard to Be a God.

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 Hard to Be a God.

Stalker
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Hard to Be a God.

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 Hard to Be a God.

Kraken
A Russian missile submarine disappears without trace during a secret mission in the Greenland Sea. A vessel is deployed to search for it, captained by the brother of the missing submarine’s commander. The search crew is tasked with locating the submarine and preventing a top-secret weapon from falling into enemy hands. Meanwhile, a geological research operation at the North Pole awakens the Kraken, a giant deep-water monster with an incredible ability to camouflage and an uncanny intelligence. As the search party narrows in on the missing submarine, they will encounter the legendary creature of the deep.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Hard to Be a God.

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 Hard to Be a God.