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10 Best Movies Like Winter of Discontent

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

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#1
The Yacoubian Building

The Yacoubian Building

2006★ 7.3

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

The lives of residents in an old Cairo building, "The Yacoubian Building," are affected by issues like corruption, extremism, class disparity, and sexuality. Through diverse charac...

#2
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

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

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....

#3
Brother 2

Brother 2

2000★ 7.1

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

Arriving in Moscow, Chechen War veteran Danila meets Konstantin, an old friend who tells him that his twin brother has been forced into signing a crooked contract with a US ice hoc...

#4
The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption

1994★ 8.7

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

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting ski...

#5
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge

Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge

1995★ 8.5

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

Raj is a rich, carefree, happy-go-lucky second generation NRI. Simran is the daughter of Chaudhary Baldev Singh, who in spite of being an NRI is very strict about adherence to Indi...

#6
The Godfather Part II

The Godfather Part II

1974★ 8.6

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

In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family bu...