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10 Best Movies Like The Retired Colonel

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

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#1
The Coach

The Coach

2018★ 6.6

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

Contemporary Russia. After he flubs a penalty kick, a humiliated national soccer player quits the game. He flees to a small town, where he decides to coach their local team....

#2
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

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

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell....

#3
My Friend Ivan Lapshin

My Friend Ivan Lapshin

1985★ 6.7

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

Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well....

#4
Scandalous Sex

Scandalous Sex

2004★ 6.9

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

A daughter seeks to restore the reputation of her disgraced father, a wronged college professor. With help of a professional student, she must overcome an ambitious sorority bitch ...

#5
Home

Home

2021★ 6.7

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

An ex-felon returns home from prison and must confront the demons of his past....

#6
Return

Return

2011★ 6.4

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

Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes....

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