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10 Best Movies Like Socrates

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

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#1
Toxic Love

Toxic Love

1983★ 7.3

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

The alienating and repetitive life of a group of heroin junkies in 1980s Rome....

#2
Sabotage

Sabotage

1937★ 6.7

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

Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily. But Mrs. Verloc does not know that her husband has a secret that will ...

#3
Zombie Nightmare

Zombie Nightmare

1987★ 3.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Socrates for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Tony Washington is killed in a hit-and-run after saving the local bodega clerk from robbers. Molly Mokembe is a Haitian voodou practitioner who brings him back as a zombi from a de...

#4
Themroc

Themroc

1973★ 6.5

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

Themroc, a bachelor house painter living at home with his mother, leads a sad and colorless life. One day, after a run-in with his boss, he rebels. He wrecks his apartment, rejects...

#5
Climax

Climax

2018★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Socrates for fans of Drama. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

When a dance troupe is lured to an empty school, a bowl of drug-laced sangria causes their jubilant rehearsal to descend into a dark and explosive nightmare as they try to survive ...

#6
The Platform

The Platform

2019★ 7.0

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

A slab of food descends down a vertical facility. The residents above eat heartily, leaving those below starving and desperate. A rebellion is imminent....