If You Liked Gran Torino, Watch These Next

Finished Gran Torino (2008) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Gran Torino, most of them are drama.

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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026

1.The Secrets We Keep(2020)
6.0ThrillerHistoryDramaAlso drama
In post-World War II America, a woman, rebuilding her life in the suburbs with her husband, kidnaps her neighbor and seeks vengeance for the heinous war crimes she believes he committed against her.
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2.Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl(1998)
7.2DramaAlso 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.
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3.Joe(1970)
6.5DramaCrimeAlso drama
After murdering his daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend, a wealthy ad executive stumbles into a bar and strikes up an uneasy alliance with Joe Curran, a drunken bigot with a bloodlust who works at a local factory.
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4.The Irishman(2019)
7.6CrimeDramaHistoryAlso drama
Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will…
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5.Son of the South(2021)
6.5HistoryDramaAlso drama
In civil rights era Montgomery, Alabama, Klansman's grandson Bob Zellner must choose which side of history to be on during the Movement. Defying his family and white Southern norms, he fought against social injustice, repression and violence to change the world around him
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6.Mudbound(2017)
7.4DramaAlso drama
In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad.
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7.The Intruder(1962)
7.2DramaAlso drama
A man in a gleaming white suit comes to a small Southern town on the eve of integration. He calls himself a social reformer. But what he does is stir up trouble--trouble he soon finds he can't control.
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8.Ironweed(1987)
6.3DramaAlso drama
An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his hometown of Albany, New York after returning there for the first time in decades.
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9.Walking Tall(2004)
6.3AdventureDramaActionAlso drama
A former U.S. soldier returns to his hometown to find it overrun by crime and corruption, which prompts him to clean house.
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10.Dead Man's Shoes(2004)
7.1DramaThrillerCrimeAlso drama
A soldier returns to his small town and exacts a deadly revenge on the thugs who tormented his disabled brother while he was away.
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11.Cardboard Boxer(2016)
6.5DramaAlso drama
Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl.
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12.7 Women(1965)
6.5DramaHistoryAlso drama
In a mission in China in 1935, a group of women are preyed on by Mongolian bandits, led by Warlord chief Tunga Khan.
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13.Emperor(2020)
7.6HistoryWarDramaAlso drama
An escaped slave travels north and has chance encounters with Frederick Douglass and John Brown. Based on the life story of Shields Green.
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14.Palmer(2021)
8.1DramaAlso drama
After 12 years in prison, former high school football star Eddie Palmer returns home to put his life back together—and forms an unlikely bond with Sam, an outcast boy from a troubled home. But Eddie's past threatens to ruin his new life and family.
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15.The Chamber(1996)
5.9CrimeDramaAlso drama
Idealistic young attorney Adam Hall takes on the death row clemency case of his racist grandfather, Sam Cayhall, a former Ku Klux Klan member he has never met.
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16.Straw Dogs(2011)
5.9DramaThrillerAlso drama
A young couple moves to a quaint southern town. Soon their perfect getaway turns out to become a living hell when dark secrets and lethal passions spiral out of control.
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17.Trees of Peace(2021)
7.2DramaAlso drama
Four women from different backgrounds forge an unbreakable sisterhood while trapped and in hiding during the genocide in Rwanda.
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18.American History X(1998)
8.3DramaAlso 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…
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19.Casualties of War(1989)
7.2DramaHistoryWarAlso drama
During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.
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20.Romper Stomper(1992)
6.5ActionDramaThrillerAlso drama
Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending the skinheads running. A woman who is prone to epileptic seizures joins the skins' merry band, and…
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