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10 Best Movies Like The Burglar

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

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#1
Ayka

Ayka

2018★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Burglar 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....

#2
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

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

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of gettin...

#3
My Joy

My Joy

2010★ 6.3

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

Georgy is driving a load of freight into Russia when, after an unpleasant encounter with the police at a border crossing, he finds himself giving a lift to a strange old man with d...

#4
The Coach

The Coach

2018★ 6.6

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

Contemporary Russia. After he flubs a penalty kick, a humiliated national soccer player quits the game. He flees to a small town, where he decides to coach their local team....

#5
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Burglar 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...

#6
My Friend Ivan Lapshin

My Friend Ivan Lapshin

1985★ 6.8

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

Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well....

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