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10 Best Movies Like Dead Drop

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

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#1
Dear Eleanor

Dear Eleanor

2016★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dead Drop for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Two teenage girls travel across the U.S. in 1962, during the chaos of the Cuban missile crisis, in search of Eleanor Roosevelt....

#2
Detention

Detention

2003★ 4.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dead Drop for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A heroic high school teacher leads a band of students trapped in school by violent drug-runners....

#3
15 Years and One Day

15 Years and One Day

2013★ 6.2

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

Jon is a troubled teenager who has been expelled from school. His mother decides to teach him a lesson by sending him away with his grandfather Max, a retired military man who live...

#4
3:10 to Yuma

3:10 to Yuma

2007★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dead Drop for fans of Western. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

In Arizona in the late 1800s, infamous outlaw Ben Wade and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured, Civil War veteran Da...

#5
Ex Machina

Ex Machina

2015★ 7.6

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

Caleb, a coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But ...

#6
12 Angry Men

12 Angry Men

1957★ 8.6

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

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begi...