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10 Best Movies Like The Cripple

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

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#1
Mindwalk

Mindwalk

1991★ 6.9

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

On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Jack, a failed presidential candidate, Tom, his ex-speechwriter and Sonia, a physicist, engage in an intellectual conversation about poli...

#2
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

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

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of gettin...

#3
Reading Lolita in Tehran

Reading Lolita in Tehran

2024★ 7.2

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

As Islamic morality squads stage arbitrary raids in Tehran and as fundamentalists seize hold of the universities, Azar Nafisi, an inspired teacher, secretly gathers six of her most...

#4
Fire with Fire

Fire with Fire

1986★ 6.2

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

A tough, street-smart kid serving a sentence in a state youth reformatory meets a beautiful, innocent girl studying at a nearby convent. When forbidden love blossoms between them, ...

#5
Skin

Skin

2009★ 6.4

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

Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era....

#6
XX/XY

XX/XY

2002★ 5.8

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

Three friends begin a dangerous three-way relationship that spirals out of control, leading to dire consequences that haunt them ten years later....

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