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10 Best Movies Like The Executioner

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

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#1
The Inheritance

The Inheritance

2003★ 6.5

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

A young Danish man, Christoffer, lives a life of joy and happiness with his wife Maria in Stockholm. When his father dies his mother insists that Christoffer take over management o...

#2
The Safety of Objects

The Safety of Objects

2002★ 6.5

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

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, an...

#3
The Experiment

The Experiment

2010★ 6.4

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

20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control....

#4
Return

Return

2011★ 6.4

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

Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes....

#5
Salomé

Salomé

2013★ 6.2

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

After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his k...

#6
Sergio

Sergio

2020★ 6.6

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

A sweeping drama set in the chaotic aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq, where the life of top UN diplomat Brazilian Sérgio Vieira de Mello hangs in the balance during the most tr...

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