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10 Best Movies Like Control

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

#1
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

1973★ 7.3

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

Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Me...

#2
Night Flight

Night Flight

2014★ 6.9

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

Yong-ju, Gi-woong and Gi-taek used to be best friends in middle school, but in high school, Gi-woong becomes a member of the gang that bullies Gi-taek. As Yong-ju tries to fix this...

#3
Brighton Rock

Brighton Rock

2010★ 5.7

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

Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish....

#4
Turks & Caicos

Turks & Caicos

2014★ 6.2

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

The second movie in David Hare's Johnny Worricker trilogy. Loose-limbed spy Johnny Worricker, last seen whistleblowing at MI5 in Page Eight, has a new life. He is hiding out in Ray...

#5
England Is Mine

England Is Mine

2017★ 5.8

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

A portrait of Steven Patrick Morrissey and his early life in 1970s Manchester before he went on to become lead singer of seminal 1980s band The Smiths....

#6
The Sexual Life of the Belgians

The Sexual Life of the Belgians

1994★ 5.4

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

Jan Bucquoy narrates the story of his sexual life to age 28, imagining his conception (parents drunk, the encounter lasting ten seconds) and reporting his first orgasm (at the hand...