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10 Best Movies Like Donkey Days

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

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#1
The Cement Garden

The Cement Garden

1993★ 6.7

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

After the death of her husband, the mother of Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom begins to suffer from a mysterious illness. Aware that she is going to have to go into hospital she opens a b...

#2
Shame

Shame

2011★ 6.9

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

Brandon, a thirty-something man living in New York, eludes intimacy with women but feeds his deepest desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his younger sister temporarily...

#3
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

2014★ 6.4

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

Some of Sin City's most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants....

#4
Some Velvet Morning

Some Velvet Morning

2013★ 5.8

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

Fred arrives at the doorstep of his beautiful young mistress Velvet after four years apart, claiming to have finally left his wife. But when she rejects his attempts to rekindle th...

#5
Jawbone

Jawbone

2017★ 6.2

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

A former youth boxing champion, Jimmy McCabe is a man in search of hope but looking in all the wrong places. When he hits rock bottom he turns to his childhood boxing club and the ...

#6
Paradise Alley

Paradise Alley

1978★ 5.8

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

Three Italian-American brothers, living in the slums of 1940's New York City, try to help each other with one's wrestling career using one brother's promotional skills and another ...

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