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10 Best Movies Like Dirty Lands

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

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#1
In the Heat of the Night

In the Heat of the Night

1967★ 7.7

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

African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs p...

#2
Shutter Island

Shutter Island

2010★ 8.2

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

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by tro...

#3
Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

2023★ 8.0

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

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II....

#4
The Godfather

The Godfather

1972★ 8.7

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

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attemp...

#5
12 Angry Men

12 Angry Men

1957★ 8.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dirty Lands 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...

#6
Ex Machina

Ex Machina

2015★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dirty Lands 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 ...