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10 Best Movies Like The Brute

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

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#1
Nowhere to Run

Nowhere to Run

1993★ 6.5

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

Escaped convict Sam Gillen single-handedly takes on ruthless developers who are determined to evict a widow with two young children....

#2
Belly

Belly

1998★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Brute for fans of Drama & Crime. 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...

#3
Knock on Any Door

Knock on Any Door

1949★ 6.2

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

An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court....

#4
Colombiana

Colombiana

2011★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Brute for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

After witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, Cataleya Restrepo grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. She works for her uncle as a hitman by day, but her personal time...

#5
Ill Manors

Ill Manors

2012★ 6.3

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

Ensemble film revolving around characters living in Forest Gate, London. Over the course of a few days, six inter-linking stories explore issues of drug use, prostitution and urban...

#6
The Cannibal Man

The Cannibal Man

1972★ 6.2

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

A young man, Marco, working as a butcher, accidentally kills a taxi driver. His girlfriend Paula wants to go to the police so he has to kill her too. He then has to kill his brothe...

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