If You Liked The Cement Garden, Watch These Next
Finished The Cement Garden (1993) 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 The Cement Garden, most of them are drama.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.I Smile Back(2015)
6.2DramaAlso drama
Laney is an attractive, intelligent suburban wife and devoted mother of two adorable children. She has the perfect husband who plays basketball with the kids in the driveway, a pristine house, and a shiny SUV for carting the children to their next activity. However, just beneath the façade lie depression and…
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3.The King of Marvin Gardens(1972)
5.9DramaAlso drama
Jason Staebler lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is a dreamer who asks his brother David, a radio personality from Philadelphia, to help him build a paradise on a Pacific Island, which might be just another of his pie-in-the-sky schemes. Inevitably, complications begin to pile up.
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4.Querelle(1982)
6.6DramaCrimeAlso drama
French sailor Querelle arrives in Brest and starts frequenting a strange whorehouse. He discovers that his brother Robert is the lover of the lady owner, Lysiane. Here, you can play dice with Nono, Lysiane's husband: if you win, you are allowed to make love with Lysiane; if you lose, you have to make love with…
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5.The Boys of St. Vincent(1994)
7.1DramaCrimeAlso drama
The true story of boys being sexually abused at their orphanage, run by a religious community in Newfoundland.
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6.Little Odessa(1994)
6.5DramaCrimeAlso drama
Long separated from his family, hitman Joshua returns to Brighton Beach for a contract killing for the Russian Mafia. His abusive father, Arkady, banned him from returning after Joshua committed his first murder. He takes up residence in a hotel, and soon everyone knows he has returned. He goes home to visit his…
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7.Blonde(2022)
5.9DramaAlso drama
From her volatile childhood as Norma Jeane, through her rise to stardom and romantic entanglements, this reimagined fictional portrait of Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe blurs the lines of fact and fiction to explore the widening split between her public and private selves.
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8.Nymphomaniac: Vol. II(2013)
6.7DramaMysteryAlso drama
The continuation of Joe's sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adult life and what led to her being in Seligman's care.
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9.The Boys from Brazil(1978)
6.7DramaMysteryScience FictionAlso drama
Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot, masterminded by Dr. Josef Mengele, to rekindle the Third Reich.
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10.Neds(2010)
6.7DramaAlso drama
NEDs (Non Educated Delinquents) is the story of a young man’s journey from prize-winning schoolboy to knife-carrying teenager. Struggling against the low expectations of those around him, John McGill changes from victim to avenger, scholar to NED, altar boy to glue sniffer. When he attempts to change back again, his…
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12.Martha Marcy May Marlene(2011)
6.6DramaThrillerAlso drama
After several years of living with a cult, Martha finally escapes and calls her estranged sister, Lucy, for help. Martha finds herself at the quiet Connecticut home Lucy shares with her new husband, Ted, but the memories of what she experienced in the cult make peace hard to find. As flashbacks continue to torment…
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13.The Silent Twins(2022)
6.3DramaAlso drama
June and Jennifer Gibbons are twins from the only Black family in a small town in Wales in the 1970s and '80s. Feeling isolated from the community, the pair turn inward and reject communication with everyone but each other, retreating into their own fantasy world of inspiration and adolescent desires. After a spree…
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14.Don't Make Me Go(2022)
6.9DramaAlso drama
A terminally ill man and his teenage daughter embark on a road trip from California to New Orleans for his 20th college reunion. While there, he secretly hopes she can reunite with the mother who left them long ago.
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15.Hungry Hearts(2015)
6.5DramaAlso drama
The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.
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16.Luckiest Girl Alive(2022)
6.5DramaThrillerMysteryAlso 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.
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17.Shame(2011)
6.9DramaAlso drama
Brandon, a thirty-something man living in New York, eludes intimacy with women but feeds his deepest desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his younger sister temporarily moves into his apartment, stirring up bitter memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's life, like his fragile mind, gets out of…
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18.Requiem for a Dream(2000)
8.0CrimeDramaAlso drama
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
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19.The Long Riders(1980)
6.7WesternActionCrimeAlso drama
The origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of the bank robbers made up of brothers who begin their legendary bank raids because of revenge.
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20.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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