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10 Best Movies Like Red Dragon

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

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#1
Hannibal

Hannibal

2001★ 6.8

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

After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again when he's discovered leaving a d...

#2
Hannibal Rising

Hannibal Rising

2007★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Red Dragon for fans of Crime & Thriller & Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

The story of the early, murderous roots of the cannibalistic killer, Hannibal Lecter – from his hard-scrabble Lithuanian childhood, where he witnesses the repulsive lengths to whic...

#3
The Silence of the Lambs

The Silence of the Lambs

1991★ 8.3

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

Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psych...

#4
Manhunter

Manhunter

1986★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Red Dragon for fans of Crime & Thriller & Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

FBI Agent Will Graham, who retired after catching Hannibal Lecktor, returns to duty to engage in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecktor to capture a new killer....

#5
Appleseed

Appleseed

2004★ 6.7

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

In a utopian society created at the end of the third world war, a female warrior who has been plucked from the badlands begins to see cracks in this new facade. And what does this ...

#6
Keeping the Faith

Keeping the Faith

2000★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Red Dragon for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Best friends since they were kids, Rabbi Jacob Schram and Father Brian Finn are dynamic and popular young men living and working on New York's Upper West Side. When Anna Reilly, on...