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10 Best Movies Like Gran Torino

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

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#1
Joe

Joe

1970★ 6.4

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

After murdering his daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend, a wealthy ad executive stumbles into a bar and strikes up an uneasy alliance with Joe Curran, a drunken bigot with a bloodlus...

#2
China Girl

China Girl

1987★ 5.9

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

Teenage lovers Tony and Tyan-Hwa tip the balance of power in New York's Little Italy and Chinatown....

#3
Ironweed

Ironweed

1987★ 6.3

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

An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his hometown of Albany, New York after returning there for the first time in decades....

#4
The Birth of a Nation

The Birth of a Nation

1915★ 6.0

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

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stone...

#5
The Irishman

The Irishman

2019★ 7.6

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

Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufal...

#6
A Raisin in the Sun

A Raisin in the Sun

1961★ 7.7

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

Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that ...

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