Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 13, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Criterion

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

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#1
The Book of Daniel

The Book of Daniel

2013★ 7.0

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

Taken into slavery after the fall of Jerusalem in 605 B.C., Daniel is forced to serve the most powerful king in the world, King Nebuchadnezzar. Faced with imminent death, Daniel pr...

#2
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

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

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell....

#3
Sergio

Sergio

2020★ 6.6

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

A sweeping drama set in the chaotic aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq, where the life of top UN diplomat Brazilian Sérgio Vieira de Mello hangs in the balance during the most tr...

#4
Home

Home

2021★ 6.7

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

An ex-felon returns home from prison and must confront the demons of his past....

#5
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#6
Salomé

Salomé

2013★ 6.2

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

After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his k...

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