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10 Best Movies Like Hopeless

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

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#1
Belly

Belly

1998★ 6.1

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

Tommy Bundy and Sincere are best friends as well as infamous and ruthless criminals and shot-callers in the hood. Respected by many but feared by all. As the police are closing in...

#2
Cruel Winter Blues

Cruel Winter Blues

2006★ 6.8

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

A gangster's quest for revenge is sidetracked by an encounter with his target's mother in this deeply-felt hybrid of a crime thriller and a family drama....

#3
Sunflower

Sunflower

2006★ 7.0

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

Tae-sik gets out of a prison after spending 10 years for killing a man and wishes nothing but an ordinary life. A local lady welcomes him into her household like a son and he gets ...

#4
Panic

Panic

2000★ 6.2

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

Alex is going through a midlife crisis and it has become a very difficult time for him. His marriage is struggling, he's worried about his son, and his job of killing people for hi...

#5
True Believer

True Believer

1989★ 6.2

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

Eddie Dodd is a burnt out former civil rights lawyer who now specializes in defending drug dealers. Roger Baron, newly graduated from law school, has followed Eddie's great cases a...

#6
Siberian Education

Siberian Education

2013★ 6.8

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

The story of a gang of children growing up in a community of banished criminals, in a forgotten corner of the former Soviet Union. This community rejects the world outside. The onl...

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