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10 Best Movies Like Willem

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

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#1
Bronson

Bronson

2009★ 7.0

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

A young man who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending 30 years in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted ...

#2
The Reader

The Reader

2008★ 7.5

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

The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one...

#3
Kiss of the Spider Woman

Kiss of the Spider Woman

1985★ 7.0

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

The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Valentin, a journalist being tortured for his political beliefs. The other is Molin...

#4
Bent

Bent

1997★ 6.9

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

Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for his life. Eventually Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to b...

#5
Where Hands Touch

Where Hands Touch

2018★ 7.9

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

Germany, 1944. Leyna, the 15-year old daughter of a white German mother and a black African father, meets Lutz, a compassionate member of the Hitler Youth whose father is a promine...

#6
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

2008★ 7.8

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

When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems ...

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