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10 Best Movies Like Child 44

If you loved Child 44, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Never Back Down

Never Back Down

2008★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Child 44 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Jake, full of anger after his father's death, is just starting to find a place for himself at his new Orlando high school - until Ryan, head of an underground MMA fight club, picks...

#2
Milk

Milk

2008★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Child 44 for fans of History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man ever elected to public office. In San Francisco in the late 1970s, Harvey Milk becomes an activist for gay rights and inspir...

#3
Malcolm X

Malcolm X

1992★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Child 44 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then ...

#4
Lawless

Lawless

2012★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Child 44 for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 1931, the Bondurant brothers of Franklin County, Virginia, run a multipurpose backwoods establishment that hides their true business — bootlegging. Middle brother Forrest is the...

#5
Locke

Locke

2014★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Child 44 for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Ivan Locke has worked hard to craft a good life for himself. Tonight, that life will collapse around him. On the eve of the biggest challenge of his career, Ivan receives a phone c...

#6
The Drop

The Drop

2014★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Child 44 for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Bob Saginowski finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood's past where friends, families, and foes all...