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10 Best Movies Like The Rooks

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

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#1
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020★ 6.2

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

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....

#2
How Viktor "The Garlic" Took Alexey "The Stud" to the Nursing Home

How Viktor "The Garlic" Took Alexey "The Stud" to the Nursing Home

2017★ 6.9

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

Viktor spends his free time trawling bars with ladies of questionable repute, from where he is picked up by a wife he doesn’t love, the mother of a child they never planned. Viktor...

#3
El Chicano

El Chicano

2019★ 6.6

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

A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law....

#4
Siberian Education

Siberian Education

2013★ 6.8

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

The story of a gang of children growing up in a community of banished criminals, in a forgotten corner of the former Soviet Union. This community rejects the world outside. The onl...

#5
Empire

Empire

2002★ 6.1

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

Big time drug dealer Victor Rosa is looking to get out of the game and sees his chance with a big deal with a new friend who happens to be a Wall St. stockbroker. Thinking this wil...

#6
A Driver for Vera

A Driver for Vera

2004★ 6.0

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

The film is set during 1962 in Sevastopol, Crimea, then a secret Navy Base in the Soviet Union. General Serov hires Viktor, a cadet from the Kremlin Guard to work as his private ch...

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