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10 Best Movies Like First Kill

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

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#1
Glory

Glory

1989★ 7.5

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

Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates....

#2
Reign Over Me

Reign Over Me

2007★ 7.2

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

A man who lost his family in the September 11 attack on New York City runs into his old college roommate. Rekindling the friendship is the one thing that appears able to help the m...

#3
Titanic

Titanic

1997★ 7.9

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

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and...

#4
Shutter Island

Shutter Island

2010★ 8.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to First Kill 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...

#5
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

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

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....

#6
Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

2023★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to First Kill for fans of History. 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....