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10 Best Movies Like The Castle

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

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#1
The Piano Teacher

The Piano Teacher

2001★ 7.3

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

Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her....

#2
Orlando

Orlando

1992★ 6.9

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

England, 1600. Queen Elizabeth I promises Orlando, a young nobleman obsessed with poetry, that she will grant him land and fortune if he agrees to satisfy a very particular request...

#3
Pixote

Pixote

1980★ 7.9

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

10-year-old Pixote endures torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of its members are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old...

#4
Kafka

Kafka

1991★ 6.4

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

After a colleague is murdered, insurance worker Kafka gets embroiled in an underground group who are attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in so...

#5
Monsters: Dark Continent

Monsters: Dark Continent

2014★ 4.7

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

Seven years on from the events of Monsters, and the ‘Infected Zones’ have spread worldwide. Humans have been knocked off the top of the food chain, with disparate communities strug...

#6
Funny Games

Funny Games

1997★ 7.3

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

Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement....