Movies like Balloon

Balloon (2018) is a thriller movie directed by Michael Herbig. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.

1. The Lives of Others (2006)
★ 8.0 · 4,313 votes · Drama, Thriller
In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes unexpectedly sympathetic to the couple, and faces conflicting loyalties when his superior takes a liking to Christa-Maria.
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2. Run Lola Run (1998)
★ 7.3 · 2,700 votes · Action, Drama, Thriller
Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. She has 20 minutes to raise this amount and meet Manni. Otherwise, he will rob a store to get the money. Three different alternatives may happen depending on some minor event along Lola's run.
Movies like Run Lola Run →
3. The Way Back (2010)
★ 7.0 · 1,830 votes · Drama, Adventure, History
A small band of multicultural convicts stages a daring escape from a WWII-era Siberian gulag, and embarks on a treacherous journey across five countries in a desperate race for freedom and survival.
Movies like The Way Back →
4. The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
★ 7.3 · 8,476 votes · Action, Drama, Thriller
A CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and Marie have been living. The pair run for their lives and Bourne, who promised retaliation should anyone from his former life attempt contact, is forced to once again take up his life as a trained assassin to survive.
Movies like The Bourne Supremacy →
5. Alone in Berlin (2016)
★ 6.7 · 412 votes · War, Thriller, Drama
Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front. This working class couple had long believed in the ‘Führer’ and followed him willingly, but now they realise that his promises are nothing but lies and deceit. They begin writing postcards as a form of resistance and in a bid to raise awareness: Stop the war machine! Kill Hitler! Putting their lives at risk, they distribute these cards in the entrances of tenement buildings and in stairwells. But the SS and the Gestapo are soon onto them, and even their neighbours pose a threat.
Movies like Alone in Berlin →
6. Everest (2015)
★ 6.8 · 5,382 votes · Adventure, Drama, History
Inspired by the incredible events surrounding a treacherous attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, "Everest" documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind. Their mettle tested by the harshest of elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle for survival.
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7. September 5 (2024)
★ 7.0 · 614 votes · Thriller, Drama, History
During the 1972 Munich Olympics, an American sports broadcasting crew finds itself thrust into covering the hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes.
Movies like September 5 →
8. Flightplan (2005)
★ 6.4 · 3,086 votes · Thriller, Drama, Mystery
Flying at 40,000 feet in a state-of-the art aircraft that she helped design, Kyle Pratt's 6-year-old daughter Julia vanishes without a trace. Or did she? No one on the plane believes Julia was ever onboard. And now Kyle, desperate and alone, can only count on her own wits to unravel the mystery and save her daughter.
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9. Munich - The Edge of War (2021)
★ 6.9 · 690 votes · Drama, History
At the tense 1938 Munich Conference, former friends who now work for opposing governments become reluctant spies racing to expose a Nazi secret.
Movies like Munich - The Edge of War →
10. Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)
★ 7.1 · 476 votes · Drama, History
In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an underground resistance movement in Munich. Dedicated expressly to the downfall of the monolithic Third Reich war machine, they call themselves the White Rose. One of its few female members, Sophie Scholl is captured during a dangerous mission to distribute pamphlets on campus with her brother Hans. Unwavering in her convictions and loyalty to the White Rose, her cross-examination by the Gestapo quickly escalates into a searing test of wills as Scholl delivers a passionate call to freedom and personal responsibility.
Movies like Sophie Scholl: The Final Days →
11. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
★ 7.3 · 391 votes · Drama, History
The film follows Kaspar Hauser, who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who feeds him.
Movies like The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser →
12. The Defiant Ones (1958)
★ 7.2 · 341 votes · Crime, Drama, Adventure
Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.
Movies like The Defiant Ones →

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Movies like Balloon

Balloon (2018) is a thriller movie directed by Michael Herbig. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.

1. The Lives of Others (2006)
★ 8.0 · 4,313 votes · Drama, Thriller
In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes unexpectedly sympathetic to the couple, and faces conflicting loyalties when his superior takes a liking to Christa-Maria.
Movies like The Lives of Others →
2. Run Lola Run (1998)
★ 7.3 · 2,700 votes · Action, Drama, Thriller
Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. She has 20 minutes to raise this amount and meet Manni. Otherwise, he will rob a store to get the money. Three different alternatives may happen depending on some minor event along Lola's run.
Movies like Run Lola Run →
3. The Way Back (2010)
★ 7.0 · 1,830 votes · Drama, Adventure, History
A small band of multicultural convicts stages a daring escape from a WWII-era Siberian gulag, and embarks on a treacherous journey across five countries in a desperate race for freedom and survival.
Movies like The Way Back →
4. The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
★ 7.3 · 8,476 votes · Action, Drama, Thriller
A CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and Marie have been living. The pair run for their lives and Bourne, who promised retaliation should anyone from his former life attempt contact, is forced to once again take up his life as a trained assassin to survive.
Movies like The Bourne Supremacy →
5. Alone in Berlin (2016)
★ 6.7 · 412 votes · War, Thriller, Drama
Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front. This working class couple had long believed in the ‘Führer’ and followed him willingly, but now they realise that his promises are nothing but lies and deceit. They begin writing postcards as a form of resistance and in a bid to raise awareness: Stop the war machine! Kill Hitler! Putting their lives at risk, they distribute these cards in the entrances of tenement buildings and in stairwells. But the SS and the Gestapo are soon onto them, and even their neighbours pose a threat.
Movies like Alone in Berlin →
6. Everest (2015)
★ 6.8 · 5,382 votes · Adventure, Drama, History
Inspired by the incredible events surrounding a treacherous attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, "Everest" documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind. Their mettle tested by the harshest of elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle for survival.
Movies like Everest →
7. September 5 (2024)
★ 7.0 · 614 votes · Thriller, Drama, History
During the 1972 Munich Olympics, an American sports broadcasting crew finds itself thrust into covering the hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes.
Movies like September 5 →
8. Flightplan (2005)
★ 6.4 · 3,086 votes · Thriller, Drama, Mystery
Flying at 40,000 feet in a state-of-the art aircraft that she helped design, Kyle Pratt's 6-year-old daughter Julia vanishes without a trace. Or did she? No one on the plane believes Julia was ever onboard. And now Kyle, desperate and alone, can only count on her own wits to unravel the mystery and save her daughter.
Movies like Flightplan →
9. Munich - The Edge of War (2021)
★ 6.9 · 690 votes · Drama, History
At the tense 1938 Munich Conference, former friends who now work for opposing governments become reluctant spies racing to expose a Nazi secret.
Movies like Munich - The Edge of War →
10. Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)
★ 7.1 · 476 votes · Drama, History
In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an underground resistance movement in Munich. Dedicated expressly to the downfall of the monolithic Third Reich war machine, they call themselves the White Rose. One of its few female members, Sophie Scholl is captured during a dangerous mission to distribute pamphlets on campus with her brother Hans. Unwavering in her convictions and loyalty to the White Rose, her cross-examination by the Gestapo quickly escalates into a searing test of wills as Scholl delivers a passionate call to freedom and personal responsibility.
Movies like Sophie Scholl: The Final Days →
11. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
★ 7.3 · 391 votes · Drama, History
The film follows Kaspar Hauser, who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who feeds him.
Movies like The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser →
12. The Defiant Ones (1958)
★ 7.2 · 341 votes · Crime, Drama, Adventure
Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.
Movies like The Defiant Ones →

1. The Lives of Others (2006)

2. Run Lola Run (1998)

3. The Way Back (2010)

4. The Bourne Supremacy (2004)

5. Alone in Berlin (2016)

6. Everest (2015)

7. September 5 (2024)

8. Flightplan (2005)

9. Munich - The Edge of War (2021)

10. Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)

11. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)

12. The Defiant Ones (1958)

Related lists

1. The Lives of Others (2006)

2. Run Lola Run (1998)

3. The Way Back (2010)

4. The Bourne Supremacy (2004)

5. Alone in Berlin (2016)

6. Everest (2015)

7. September 5 (2024)

8. Flightplan (2005)

9. Munich - The Edge of War (2021)

10. Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)

11. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)

12. The Defiant Ones (1958)

Related lists