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10 Best Movies Like 438 Days

If you loved 438 Days, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Plan A

Plan A

2021★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 438 Days for fans of Drama & Thriller & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Germany 1945, Max, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, meets a radical group of Jewish resistance fighters, who, like him, lost all hope for their future after they were robbed of their e...

#2
Shattered Glass

Shattered Glass

2003★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 438 Days for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The true story of fraudulent Washington, D.C. journalist Stephen Glass, who rose to meteoric heights as a young writer in his 20s, becoming a staff writer at The New Republic for t...

#3
The Stanford Prison Experiment

The Stanford Prison Experiment

2015★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 438 Days for fans of Drama & Thriller & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 1971, Stanford's Professor Philip Zimbardo conducts a controversial psychology experiment in which college students pretend to be either prisoners or guards, but the proceedings...

#4
The Experiment

The Experiment

2010★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 438 Days for fans of Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control....

#5
Coldwater

Coldwater

2013★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 438 Days for fans of Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A teenage boy is sent to a juvenile reform facility in the wilderness. As we learn about the tragic events that sent him there, his struggle becomes one for survival with the inmat...

#6
Backstabbing for Beginners

Backstabbing for Beginners

2018★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 438 Days for fans of Drama & Thriller & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An idealistic young employee at the U.N. investigates the grisly murder of his predecessor – and uncovers a vast global conspiracy that may involve his own boss....

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