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10 Best Movies Like Axolotl Overkill

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

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#1
Phoenix

Phoenix

2014★ 6.8

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

In the aftermath of WWII, German-Jewish cabaret singer Nelly has to undergo facial reconstructive surgery following her survival from Auschwitz. Without recognising Nelly, her form...

#2
The Lovely Bones

The Lovely Bones

2009★ 7.1

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

After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken family -- and her killer. As she observes their daily lives, she must balance he...

#3
Jerichow

Jerichow

2009★ 6.5

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

In a small Northern German town, a dishonourably discharged Afghanistan veteran is offered a job as a deliveryman by an alcoholic Turkish entrepreneur, through which the former mee...

#4
Despair

Despair

1978★ 6.5

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

Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his temper more and more every day w...

#5
Tough Enough

Tough Enough

2006★ 6.9

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

From the youth directed novel of the same name by Greogor Tressnow comes a film by Detlev Buck that is a realistic portrait of life in the section of Berlin called Neukölln. It’s a...

#6
Alone in Berlin

Alone in Berlin

2016★ 6.7

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

Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’...

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