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10 Best Movies Like The Marco Effect

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

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#1
Boundless

Boundless

2024★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Marco Effect for fans of Thriller & Crime. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

In a moment of cowardice, Detective Carl Mørck sends Rose, his junior colleague in Department Q, to the remote Danish island of Bornholm to answer his old colleague Christian Haber...

#2
The Absent One

The Absent One

2014★ 7.0

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

Denmark, 2014. A former police officer asks Carl Mørck, head of Department Q, to find out who brutally killed his young twins in 1994. Although a local inhabitant confessed and was...

#3
Andy

Andy

2019★ 5.5

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

A lazy man becomes a prostitute....

#4
The Fable

The Fable

2019★ 6.7

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

The Fable is a legendary yakuza hitman equal to none—but his boss orders him and his sultry associate to lay low and learn how to live a "normal life" in Osaka....

#5
The Twins Effect II

The Twins Effect II

2004★ 5.2

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

Set in Flower Capital, a land ruled by an Evil Queen. All men in the kingdom are slaves to women. However, a prophecy foretells that one day, the Star of Rex will find and wield a ...

#6
Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy

Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy

2025★ 6.7

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

Kim Dok-ja, an ordinary man in his 20s, is the only reader of an obscure web novel titled "Three Ways to Survive the Apocalypse". After having read the last chapter, the novel sudd...