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10 Best Movies Like First We Take Brooklyn

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

#1
Bringing Out the Dead

Bringing Out the Dead

1999★ 6.6

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

Once called "Father Frank" for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank Pierce sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, ...

#2
A Bad Idea Gone Wrong

A Bad Idea Gone Wrong

2017★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to First We Take Brooklyn for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Two would-be thieves forge a surprising relationship with an unexpected housesitter when they accidentally trap themselves in a house they just broke into....

#3
Annabelle: Creation

Annabelle: Creation

2017★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to First We Take Brooklyn for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a doll maker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the t...

#4
Green Book

Green Book

2018★ 8.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to First We Take Brooklyn 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 ...

#5
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to First We Take Brooklyn for fans of Drama & Crime. 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....

#6
Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

2023★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to First We Take Brooklyn 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....