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10 Best Movies Like The worker

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

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#1
The Three Friends

The Three Friends

1966★ 6.1

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

Three friends are arrested after committing an accident with their car. After finishing their sentence, they become partners with the owner of a decoration workshop. But he deceive...

#2
Cairo Station

Cairo Station

1958★ 7.4

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

Qinawi, a physically challenged peddler who makes his living selling newspapers in the central Cairo train station, is obsessed with Hanuma, an attractive young woman who sells dri...

#3
Hands of Stone

Hands of Stone

2016★ 6.6

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

The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives....

#4
Burning Sands

Burning Sands

2017★ 5.8

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

Deep into Hell Week, a favored pledgee is torn between honoring his code of silence or standing up against the intensifying violence of underground hazing....

#5
Resurrecting the Champ

Resurrecting the Champ

2007★ 6.3

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

Up-and-coming sports reporter rescues a homeless man ("Champ") only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to ...

#6
Jawbone

Jawbone

2017★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The worker for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A former youth boxing champion, Jimmy McCabe is a man in search of hope but looking in all the wrong places. When he hits rock bottom he turns to his childhood boxing club and the ...

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