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10 Best Movies Like The Young Karl Marx

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

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#1
Lumumba

Lumumba

2000★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Young Karl Marx for fans of History & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered hi...

#2
Tower. A Bright Day.

Tower. A Bright Day.

2018★ 5.3

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

Mula lives with her husband, sick mother and daughter Nina in a countryside house. At the weekend before Nina’s First Holy Communion, her brother with his family come for a visit t...

#3
Sex, Pity and Loneliness

Sex, Pity and Loneliness

2017★ 6.1

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

A shoe theft in the ICE is the prelude to a wild kaleidoscope of relationships and dependencies between different urban people who relish as in a cobweb fidget....

#4
For Those I Loved

For Those I Loved

1983★ 6.9

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

Polish Martin Gray recalls the Holocaust, New York prosperity, and losing his wife and family....

#5
Francis Bacon: A Brush with Violence

Francis Bacon: A Brush with Violence

2017★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Young Karl Marx for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

In this unique, compelling film, those who knew him speak freely, some for the first time, to reveal the many mysteries of Francis Bacon....

#6
Tapping the Wire

Tapping the Wire

2007★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Young Karl Marx for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Long-time Wire fan Charlie Brooker takes a journey to the mean streets of Baltimore to meet the cast and crew of the series, and undertakes a mission to explain what makes The Wire...