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10 Best Movies Like Sandakan No. 8

If you loved Sandakan No. 8, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

1976★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sandakan No. 8 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture....

#2
A Summer at Grandpa's

A Summer at Grandpa's

1984★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sandakan No. 8 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A coming-of-age story about a young brother and sister whom spend a pivotal summer in the country with their grandparents....

#3
Random Harvest

Random Harvest

1942★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sandakan No. 8 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Wandered away from his asylum, an amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star but his amnesia makes it difficult to last....

#4
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sandakan No. 8 for fans of Drama. 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....

#5
Titanic

Titanic

1997★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sandakan No. 8 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...

#6
The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption

1994★ 8.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sandakan No. 8 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting ski...