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10 Best Movies Like Foucault

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

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#1
The Experiment

The Experiment

2010★ 6.4

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

20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control....

#2
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#3
Mindwalk

Mindwalk

1991★ 6.9

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

On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Jack, a failed presidential candidate, Tom, a poet and Sonia, a physicist, engage in an intellectual conversation about politics, philoso...

#4
Mother

Mother

1926★ 7.1

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

A Soviet woman is caught between her husband and son, who find themselves on opposing sides of the Russian Revolution....

#5
Ayka

Ayka

2018★ 6.9

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

A young Kyrgyz immigrant tries to eke out a living in Moscow after abandoning her newborn and fleeing the hospital....

#6
God's Pocket

God's Pocket

2014★ 5.8

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

A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist and the young man's mother complicate matters....

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