Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 14, 2026

10 Best Movies Like The Monk

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

🏆

Expert Review & Ratings

See our full critical analysis and audience score for The Monk.

View Review →
Advertisement
#1
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Monk 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
The Girl in the Book

The Girl in the Book

2015★ 5.8

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

The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present....

#3
Cardboard Boxer

Cardboard Boxer

2016★ 6.3

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

Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl....

#4
Protégé

Protégé

2007★ 6.8

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

A special agent has for 8 years been deep undercover in Asia's lucrative organized crime trade as he plays protégé to one of the key players, Banker. Now, Nick has but he has start...

#5
Still Human

Still Human

2018★ 7.8

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

A Hong Kong man with a disability hires a Filipino migrant worker to care for him. As they spend more time together through different seasons, they start learning about themselves....

#6
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

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

Advertisement