
10 Best Movies Like The Shakedown
If you loved The Shakedown, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

The World of Apu
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Shakedown for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Apu, now a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer, is invited to join an old college friend on a trip up-country to a village wedding....

My Fair Lady
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Shakedown for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society....

Blood Simple
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Shakedown for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues afte...

Six Men Getting Sick
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Shakedown for fans of Animation. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.
Lynch's first film project consists of a loop of six people vomiting projected on to a special sculptured screen featuring twisted three-dimensional faces....

Manon of the Spring
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Shakedown for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In this, the sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She plots vengeance on the men who greedily...

Time of the Gypsies
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Shakedown for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
In this luminous tale set in the former Yugoslavia, Perhan, an engaging young Romany with telekinetic powers, is seduced by the quick-cash world of petty crime that threatens to de...