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10 Best Movies Like Karen

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

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#1
A Dry White Season

A Dry White Season

1989★ 6.6

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

During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody....

#2
Luce

Luce

2019★ 6.4

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

A star athlete and top student, Luce's idealized image is challenged by one of his teachers when his unsettling views on political violence come to light, putting a strain on famil...

#3
Aftermath

Aftermath

2024★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Karen for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A returning war veteran, stricken with PTSD, gets trapped with his teenage sister on Boston's Tobin Memorial Bridge when a heavily armed group of ex-military revolutionaries take e...

#4
The Lords of Discipline

The Lords of Discipline

1983★ 6.6

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

Will arrives for his last year at Military Academy, in the Deep South USA, in the 1960's. A black student, Pearce, has been accepted, for the first time and Will is asked to keep a...

#5
The Truth About Emanuel

The Truth About Emanuel

2013★ 6.0

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

A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother....

#6
No Way Out

No Way Out

1950★ 6.9

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

Two hoodlum brothers are brought into hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one dies, the other accuses their Black doctor of murder....

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