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.

My Friend Ivan Lapshin
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....

All Day and a Night
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....

The Coach
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....

Babylon
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...

Come Sunday
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....

Mother
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....