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10 Best Movies Like Congo

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

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#1
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

2019★ 7.0

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

A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years....

#2
22 July

22 July

2018★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Congo for fans of Drama & Crime & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

On 22 July 2011, neo-Nazi terrorist Anders Behring Breivik murdered 77 young people attending a Labour Party Youth Camp on Utøya Island outside of Oslo. This three-part story focus...

#3
True Story

True Story

2015★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Congo for fans of Drama & Crime & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A drama centered on the relationship between journalist Michael Finkel and Christian Longo, an FBI Most Wanted List murderer who for years lived outside the U.S. under Finkel's nam...

#4
Utøya: July 22

Utøya: July 22

2018★ 7.2

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

A teenage girl fights for survival and to locate her young sister during the 2011 terrorist attack at a political summer camp on the Norwegian island of Utøya....

#5
In Cold Blood

In Cold Blood

1967★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Congo for fans of Drama & Crime & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of thei...

#6
Riot in Cell Block 11

Riot in Cell Block 11

1954★ 7.0

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

A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly....

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