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10 Best Movies Like Detroit

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

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#1
The Trial of the Chicago 7

The Trial of the Chicago 7

2020★ 7.7

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

What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history....

#2
The Hate U Give

The Hate U Give

2018★ 8.1

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

Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn...

#3
Plan A

Plan A

2021★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Detroit 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...

#4
Son of the South

Son of the South

2021★ 6.5

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

In civil rights era Montgomery, Alabama, Klansman's grandson Bob Zellner must choose which side of history to be on during the Movement. Defying his family and white Southern norms...

#5
Straight Outta Compton

Straight Outta Compton

2015★ 7.8

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

In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful w...

#6
Judas and the Black Messiah

Judas and the Black Messiah

2021★ 7.3

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

Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers on the orders of FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends—falling for a fellow revolutionar...

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