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10 Best Movies Like El chacal

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

#1
The Soft Skin

The Soft Skin

1964★ 7.1

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

Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married to Franca and father of Sabine. He starts a love affair with air hostess Nicole, which Pierre is hiding, but he cann...

#2
Au Revoir les Enfants

Au Revoir les Enfants

1987★ 7.5

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

Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, t...

#3
The Men Who Stare at Goats

The Men Who Stare at Goats

2009★ 6.0

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

A reporter in Iraq might just have the story of a lifetime when he meets Lyn Cassady, a guy who claims to be a former member of the U.S. Army's New Earth Army, a unit that employs ...

#4
Dreams

Dreams

1990★ 7.7

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

Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier’s ghosts, a walk through Van Gogh’s canvases, nuclear nightmares, and a...

#5
Re/cycle

Re/cycle

2019★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to El chacal for fans of Fantasy. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

With input from actor and writer Jan Hlobil, director and cinematographer Rene Smaal presents a film in the true surrealist tradition, in the sense that only 'found' elements were ...

#6
The Navigator

The Navigator

1924★ 7.1

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

The wealthy and impulsive Rollo Treadway decides to propose to his beautiful socialite neighbor, Betsy O'Brien. Although Betsy turns Rollo down, he still opts to go on the cruise t...