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10 Best Movies Like The Shift

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

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#1
Six Weeks to Twelve Years

Six Weeks to Twelve Years

2020★ 6.1

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

After the death of their abusive father, two estranged twin brothers must reunite and sell off his property....

#2
Kids Return

Kids Return

1996★ 6.9

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

Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time boxer, while Masaru joins up with a ...

#3
No End

No End

1985★ 7.0

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

1982, Poland. A translator loses her husband and becomes a victim of her own sorrow. She looks to sex, to her son, to law, and to hypnotism when she has nothing else in this time o...

#4
Hard Times

Hard Times

1975★ 6.8

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

In the depression, Chaney, a strong silent streetfighter, joins with Speed, a promoter of no-holds-barred street boxing bouts. They go to New Orleans where Speed borrows money to s...

#5
Female Urologists 3

Female Urologists 3

2020★ 5.2

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

Haeil, wounded by his wife's words of 'premature ejaculation', goes to a urology department. But because the doctor is a woman, she is so surprised and embarrassed that she tries t...

#6
Rambo III

Rambo III

1988★ 6.2

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

Combat has taken its toll on Rambo, but he's finally begun to find inner peace in a monastery. When Rambo's friend and mentor Col. Trautman asks for his help on a top secret missio...