If You Liked The Brutalist, Watch These Next
Finished The Brutalist (2024) 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 Brutalist, most of them are drama.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.The Talented Mr. Ripley(1999)
7.2ThrillerCrimeDramaAlso drama
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend,…
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3.Effie Gray(2014)
6.0DramaAlso drama
A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.
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4.Once Upon a Time in America(1984)
8.4DramaCrimeAlso drama
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
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5.Adam Resurrected(2008)
6.1DramaWarAlso drama
After again attempting to commit murder, a Jewish man with a mysterious past and extraordinary intelligence, charisma, and body control returns to an insane asylum, where he makes a startling discovery.
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6.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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7.Dream Lover(1994)
6.9DramaMysteryThrillerAlso drama
Not long after they cross paths at an art gallery, architect Ray Reardon and hypnotically sensual Lena are married with children. But as strange incidents occur, Ray begins to realize he may not really know the woman he married.
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8.Raging Bull(1980)
7.9DramaHistoryAlso drama
The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
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9.My Neighbor Adolf(2022)
6.5DramaAlso drama
South America, 1960. A lonely and grumpy Holocaust survivor convinces himself that his new neighbor is none other than Adolf Hitler. Not being taken seriously, he starts an independent investigation to prove his claim, but when the evidence still appears to be inconclusive, Polsky is forced to engage in a…
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10.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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11.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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12.The Safety of Objects(2002)
6.5DramaAlso drama
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new…
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13.Holy Lands(2019)
6.1DramaAlso drama
When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks his family and his new neighbours. Back in New York, Harry’s ex-wife Monica is trying to manage the lives of their adult children, Annabelle and David, as well as her own.
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14.The World Will Tremble(2025)
7.4DramaWarHistoryAlso drama
The incredible, untold true story of how a group of prisoners attempt a seemingly impossible escape from the first Nazi death camp in order to provide the first eyewitness account of the Holocaust.
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15.The Other Woman(2010)
6.2DramaAlso drama
Emilia, a law-school graduate, falls in love with her married boss, Jack. After Emilia marries Jack, her happiness turns unexpectedly to grief following the death of her infant daughter. Devastated, Emilia nonetheless carries on, attempting to forge a connection with her stepson William and to resist the interference…
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16.Midnight Cowboy(1969)
7.5DramaAlso drama
Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.
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17.Hannibal(2001)
6.8CrimeDramaThrillerAlso drama
After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again when he's discovered leaving a deserving few dead in the process. He returns to America to make contact with now disgraced Agent Clarice Starling, who is suffering the…
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19.Night Always Comes(2025)
6.1DramaCrimeThrillerAlso drama
Facing eviction in a city her family can no longer afford, a woman plunges into a desperate and increasingly dangerous all-night search to raise $25,000.
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