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10 Best Movies Like This Man Must Die

If you loved This Man Must Die, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Before the Revolution

Before the Revolution

1964★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Man Must Die for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The study of a youth on the edge of adulthood and his aunt, ten years older. Fabrizio is passionate, idealistic, influenced by Cesare, a teacher and Marxist, engaged to the lovely ...

#2
The Butcher

The Butcher

1970★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Man Must Die for fans of Thriller & Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town....

#3
Naked Childhood

Naked Childhood

1969★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Man Must Die for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Handed over to foster care by his mother—who's unwilling to give up permanent custody—the now-adolescent François understands that nothing in life is permanent, and his increasingl...

#4
Innocents with Dirty Hands

Innocents with Dirty Hands

1975★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Man Must Die for fans of Thriller & Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Saint Tropez. Julie Wormser and her lover, writer and neighbour Jeff Marle, plan the murder of her wealthy husband Louis, an alcoholic impotent. She hits him, and leaves the rest o...

#5
Providence

Providence

1977★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Man Must Die for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

On the eve of his 78th birthday, the ailing, alcoholic writer Clive Langham spends a painful and sleepless night mentally composing and recomposing scenes for a novel in which char...

#6
Eight Miles High

Eight Miles High

2007★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Man Must Die for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Achim Bornhak's movie focuses on the restless life of Uschi Obermaier, the icon of the 1968 movement in Germany and groupie. At the age of 16, Uschi is bored by her job in a photo ...