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10 Best Movies Like Department

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

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#1
Ayka

Ayka

2018★ 6.9

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

A young Kyrgyz immigrant tries to eke out a living in Moscow after abandoning her newborn and fleeing the hospital....

#2
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

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

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

#3
The Coach

The Coach

2018★ 6.6

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

Contemporary Russia. After he flubs a penalty kick, a humiliated national soccer player quits the game. He flees to a small town, where he decides to coach their local team....

#4
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

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

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of gettin...

#5
The House on Carroll Street

The House on Carroll Street

1988★ 5.9

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

A reporter, fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. While working she overhears a no...

#6
Salomé

Salomé

2013★ 6.2

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

After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his k...

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