Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 15, 2026

10 Best Movies Like The Whirlpool

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

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#1
My Friend Ivan Lapshin

My Friend Ivan Lapshin

1985★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Whirlpool 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....

#2
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Whirlpool 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....

#3
The Coach

The Coach

2018★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Whirlpool 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....

#4
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#5
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Whirlpool 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....

#6
Mother

Mother

1926★ 7.1

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

A Soviet woman is caught between her husband and son, who find themselves on opposing sides of the Russian Revolution....

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