
10 Best Movies Like Despair
If you loved Despair, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Alone in Berlin
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Despair for fans of Drama & Thriller. 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’...

The Bourne Supremacy
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Despair for fans of Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
A CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and Marie have been living. The pai...

Valkyrie
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Despair for fans of Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and as...

Woman in Gold
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Despair for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family....

FX's A Christmas Carol
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Despair for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
London, 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of Christmas Eve night he is visited by three ghosts to show him his past, present...

The Zone of Interest
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Despair for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp....