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10 Best Movies Like Ruddy's Career

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

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#1
My Neighbor Adolf

My Neighbor Adolf

2022★ 6.5

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

South America, 1960. A lonely and grumpy Holocaust survivor convinces himself that his new neighbor is none other than Adolf Hitler. Not being taken seriously, he starts an indepen...

#2
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

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

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

#3
Skin

Skin

2009★ 6.4

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

Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era....

#4
Bastards

Bastards

2006★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ruddy's Career for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A "Hitlerjugend" kind of story, set in the Soviet Union during the Second World War, based on a fictitious story from the eponymous book by Vladimir Kunin....

#5
Gigi & Nate

Gigi & Nate

2022★ 7.5

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

A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend....

#6
Farming

Farming

2018★ 6.2

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

Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Ins...

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