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10 Best Movies Like The King

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

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#1
Kon-Tiki

Kon-Tiki

2012★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The King for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

The true story about legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove it was possible for South Americans ...

#2
Wasted Youth

Wasted Youth

2011★ 5.5

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

Harris, a 16 year old boy spends his day skateboarding aimlessly around Athens with his friends. Vassilis, a middle aged cop, is frustrated with his dead-end job and crammed in his...

#3
Generator

Generator

2013★ 6.5

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

Savvas, a fifty-five-year old man, witnesses the gradual collapse of everything that he has been building his whole life. Why did things go so wrong? What can be done now? People a...

#4
The Unknown

The Unknown

1954★ 3.2

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

Madame X (Greek title: I Agnostos) is a 1954 Greek drama film directed by Orestis Laskos. It is based on the 1908 play by French playwright Alexandre Bisson (1848-1912). Thrown ou...

#5
The Loser Takes All

The Loser Takes All

2002★ 5.8

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

Man (Gianis Aggelakas), a mysterious man of the underworld, small time grifter and big time hard-man, who has an anarchic tendency to mumble and comment on the system, society, pol...

#6
Raiders of the Lost Ark

Raiders of the Lost Ark

1981★ 7.9

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

When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist – is hired by the government to locate the legendary Ark of the Covenant, he f...