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10 Best Movies Like Dead Man Walking

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

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#1
Deadline

Deadline

2009★ 5.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dead Man Walking for fans of Drama. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A screenwriter travels to an abandoned house to finish a script on time, but a series of strange events lead her to a psychological breakdown....

#2
The Crossing Guard

The Crossing Guard

1995★ 6.0

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

Unable to move on from the loss of his daughter, Freddy, now a shell of the person he was before, swears to kill the man responsible for her death....

#3
White Palace

White Palace

1990★ 6.4

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

Max Baron is a Jewish advertising executive in his 20s who's still getting over the death of his wife. Nora Baker is a 40-something diner waitress who enjoys the wilder side of lif...

#4
Battle in Seattle

Battle in Seattle

2007★ 6.3

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

Thousands of activists arrive in Seattle, Washington in masses to protest the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999 (World Trade Organization). Although it began as a peaceful protest...

#5
Matterhorn

Matterhorn

2013★ 6.1

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

A lonely widower finds himself facing both his devout Calvinist village community and his own deepest regrets when he takes a deranged vagrant into his home....

#6
Stone of Destiny

Stone of Destiny

2008★ 6.5

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

Tells of the daring heist of The Stone of Destiny in the 1950s by a charming group of idealistic Scottish undergraduates, whose action rekindled Scottish nationalistic pride....