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10 Best Movies Like Empire State

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

#1
Kill List

Kill List

2011★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Empire State for fans of Crime & Thriller. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the k...

#2
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Empire State for fans of Crime & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....

#3
Green Book

Green Book

2018★ 8.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Empire State for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and ...

#4
Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

2023★ 8.0

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

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II....

#5
Parasite

Parasite

2019★ 8.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Empire State for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident....

#6
The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption

1994★ 8.7

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

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting ski...