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10 Best Movies Like The Car Thief

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

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#1
The Body Tree

The Body Tree

2017★ 5.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Car Thief for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A group of Americans travel to Siberia where a friend died stabbed. Soon, they will discover their hosts are involved in the occult....

#2
Monkey Business

Monkey Business

1952★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Car Thief for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours th...

#3
The Isle

The Isle

2000★ 6.9

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

Mute Hee-Jin is working as a clerk in a fishing resort in the Korean wilderness; selling baits, food and occasionally her body to the fishing tourists. One day she falls in love wi...

#4
The Man Without a Past

The Man Without a Past

2002★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Car Thief for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Arriving in Helsinki, a nameless man is beaten within an inch of his life by thugs, miraculously recovering only to find that he has completely lost his memory. Back on the streets...

#5
The Man from Laramie

The Man from Laramie

1955★ 7.2

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

Will Lockhart arrives in Coronado, an isolated town in New Mexico, in search of someone who sells rifles to the Apache tribe, finding himself unwillingly drawn into the convoluted ...

#6
The Cuckoo

The Cuckoo

2002★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Car Thief for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock Finnish sniper-kamikadze Veikko managed to set himself free. Ivan, a captain of t...