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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.

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#1
Devil in a Blue Dress

Devil in a Blue Dress

1995★ 6.5

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...

#2
Blue Velvet

Blue Velvet

1986★ 7.6

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...

#3
L.A. Confidential

L.A. Confidential

1997★ 7.8

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...

#4
Once Upon a Time in America

Once Upon a Time in America

1984★ 8.4

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...

#5
Gotti

Gotti

1996★ 6.5

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...

#6
Neverwas

Neverwas

2005★ 6.4

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...

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