If You Liked Joy, Watch These Next
Finished Joy (2019) 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 Joy, most of them are drama.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Import/Export(2007)
6.8DramaAlso drama
A nurse from Ukraine searches for a better life in the West, while an unemployed security guard from Austria heads East for the same reason. Both are looking for work, a new beginning, an existence, struggling to believe in themselves, to find a meaning in life...
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3.Trafficked(2017)
6.6DramaAlso drama
In this story inspired by real characters, three girls from America, Nigeria and India are trafficked through an elaborate global network and enslaved in a Texas brothel, and must together attempt a daring escape to reclaim their freedom.
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4.Berlin Alexanderplatz(2020)
6.9DramaCrimeAlso drama
In 2015, thirty year old refugee Francis, the sole survivor of a boat that illegally crossed the Mediterranean, is drawn into Berlin's seedy underbelly.
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5.Stroszek(1977)
7.3DramaAlso drama
Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck and they join his neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves…
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6.The Whistleblower(2010)
6.7DramaThrillerCrimeAlso drama
Nebraska cop Kathryn Bolkovac discovers a deadly sex trafficking ring while serving as a U.N. peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia. Risking her own life to save the lives of others, she uncovers an international conspiracy that is determined to stop her, no matter the cost.
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7.Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden(2016)
6.7DramaHistoryAlso drama
Vienna, Austria, 1910. The young painter Egon Schiele is a rising artist, provocative and free, whose work, characterized by eroticism, shocks as much as it fascinates art lovers.
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8.Mean Streets(1973)
7.0DramaCrimeAlso drama
A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.
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9.Òlòtūré(2019)
6.3DramaCrimeAlso drama
In Lagos, Nigeria, young, naive Nigerian journalist Òlòtūré goes undercover to expose the shady underworld of human trafficking. Unused to this brutal environment, crawling with ruthless traders and pimps, Òlòtūré finds warmth and friendship with Blessing, Linda and Beauty, the prostitutes she lives with. However,…
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10.Edmond(2006)
6.0DramaThrillerAlso drama
Seemingly mild-mannered businessman Edmond Burke visits a fortuneteller and hears a remark that spurs him to leave his wife abruptly and seek what is missing from his life. Encounters with strangers and unsavory people weaken the barriers encompassing his long-suppressed rage, until Edmond explodes in violence.
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11.Crimes of Passion(1984)
6.3CrimeDramaThrillerAlso drama
Fashion designer Joanna Crane leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a prostitute who's attracted the attention of a sexually frustrated private detective, and a psychopathic priest in possession of a murderous sex toy.
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12.Dirty Pretty Things(2002)
6.9CrimeDramaThrillerAlso drama
An undocumented immigrant finds a human heart in one of the toilets of the west London hotel where he works with other undocumented immigrants.
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13.Uncut Gems(2019)
7.2DramaThrillerCrimeAlso drama
A charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. Howard must perform a precarious high-wire act, balancing business, family, and encroaching adversaries on all sides in his relentless pursuit of the…
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14.Goodbye Solo(2009)
6.9DramaAlso drama
A man planning to commit suicide hires a taxi driver to take him to his jumping-off point.
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15.Christiane F.(1981)
7.3DramaAlso drama
A teen girl in 1970s Berlin becomes addicted to heroin. Everything in her life slowly begins to distort and disappear as she befriends a small crew of junkies and falls in love with a drug-abusing male prostitute.
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16.The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things(2004)
5.9DramaAlso drama
Young Jeremiah lives in a stable environment with loving foster parents until the day his troubled mother, Sarah, returns to claim him. Jeremiah becomes swept up in his mother's dangerous world of drugs, seedy hotels, strip joints and revolving lovers. Salvation comes in the form of the boy's ultrareligious…
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18.Love Is Colder Than Death(1970)
6.2CrimeDramaAlso drama
Small-time pimp Franz is torn between his mistress and Bruno, the gangster sent after him by a shady crime syndicate he has refused to join.
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19.71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance(1995)
7.0DramaAlso drama
71 scenes revolving around multiple Viennese residents who are by chance involved with a senseless gun slaughter on Christmas Eve.
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20.Night Hunter(2019)
6.6DramaThrillerAlso drama
A Minnesota police officer crosses paths with a committed and tireless vigilante as he follows the trail of a ruthless predator responsible for several abductions and murders.
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