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10 Best Movies Like The Fifth Monkey

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

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#1
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

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

#2
Mango Yellow

Mango Yellow

2002★ 6.6

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

The lives of a macho butcher, his wife, a lonely waitress, a sadist and a flophouse manager intersect in Recife, Brazil....

#3
My Neighbor Adolf

My Neighbor Adolf

2022★ 6.5

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

#4
Sergio

Sergio

2020★ 6.6

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

#5
The Kindness of Strangers

The Kindness of Strangers

2019★ 6.3

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

Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who get...

#6
Little Boy Blue

Little Boy Blue

1997★ 6.1

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

Living in rural Texas is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that's left him impotent; a compliant wife and a son of about 20, two small sons who...

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