
10 Best Movies Like Motherless Brooklyn
If you loved Motherless Brooklyn, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Devil in a Blue Dress
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Motherless Brooklyn for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for...

Blue Velvet
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Motherless Brooklyn for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminal...

L.A. Confidential
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Motherless Brooklyn for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night d...

Once Upon a Time in America
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Motherless Brooklyn for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old li...

Gotti
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Motherless Brooklyn for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
John Gotti, the head of a small New York mafia crew breaks a few of the old family rules. He rises to become the head of the Gambino family and the most well-known mafia boss in Am...

Neverwas
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Motherless Brooklyn for fans of Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Zach Riley is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, Millwood. What he doesn't reveal at the time o...