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Movies like Die Insel der Krebse (1975)

The best movies like Die Insel der Krebse (1975) are They Drive by Night (1940), The Color of Friendship (2000) and Come Sunday (2018). If Die Insel der Krebse hooked you with its drama, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.

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  1. They Drive by Night (1940)

    Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  2. The Color of Friendship (2000)

    Mahree Bok lives on a farm in South Africa. Her father is a policeman who cannot hide his joy when activist Steve Biko is caught by the South African authorities. Piper Dellums is the daughter of a US congressman from California and who lives in a nice home in Washington DC. When Mahree is chosen to spend a semester at the Dellums' house, she doesn't expect that her host family would be black. Nor do her hosts suspect that she is not a black South African.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  3. Come Sunday (2018)

    Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

  4. Hands of Stone (2016)

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

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  5. Blame Game (2019)

    Martin Behrens is a Middle East expert for the German intelligence agency BND. He obtains information leading to a U.S. drone strike on a wanted terrorist in Zahiristan. A few days later, there's a terrorist attack on a restaurant – the video claiming responsibility calls it payback for the drone strike. Freelance journalist Aurice, with whom Martin was having an affair, is among the victims – she was investigating corruption at the heart of the BND. Martin soon has to realize that in a world where big corporations profit from arms deals as well as from homeland security contracts, good and evil are sometimes hard to tell apart.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

  6. Hardball (2001)

    An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  7. Home (2021)

    An ex-felon returns home from prison and must confront the demons of his past.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  8. Normal (2003)

    A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  9. Skin (2009)

    Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  10. Imperial Dreams (2014)

    A 21-year-old reformed gangster's devotion to his family and his future is put to the test when he is released from prison and returns to his old stomping grounds in Watts, Los Angeles.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  11. The Sound of Silence (2019)

    A successful "house tuner" in New York City, who calibrates the sound in people's homes in order to adjust their moods, meets a client with a problem he can't solve.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

  12. The Locket (1946)

    A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  13. Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything (2023)

    Set in a warm summer in 1990 in former East Germany, it follows a young woman who begins a relationship with a charismatic farmer who is twice her age.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

  14. Where the Red Fern Grows (1974)

    Billy Coleman works hard and saves his earnings for two years to achieve his dream of buying two red-bone coonhound pups. He develops a new trust in life as he faces overwhelming challenges in adventure and tragedy roaming the river bottoms of Cherokee country with his dogs, Old Dan and Little Ann.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  15. Vincent Wants to Sea (2010)

    Vincent, a young man who suffers from Tourette's syndrome, has just lost his mother. His father, a successful politician, does not want to take care of him and therefore places him into a mental institution. He is put into a room with Alexander, a guy with a compulsive disorder, and is shown around by Marie, an anorectic girl.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  16. The Enforcer (2022)

    A noir thriller set in Miami, the film follows an enforcer who discovers his femme fatale boss has branched out into cyber sex trafficking, putting a young runaway he’s befriended at risk. He sacrifices everything to save the young girl from the deadly organization he’s spent his life building.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  17. Three Christs (2017)

    Dr. Alan Stone breaks new ground for treatment of the mentally ill through an experiment on three paranoid schizophrenic patients who believe they are Jesus Christ.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  18. Cloak and Dagger (1946)

    Italian partisans help a professor sent by the OSS to find an atomic scientist held by Nazis.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  19. The German Lesson (2019)

    In a small North German village a drama played out during and shortly after the Second World War about duty versus individual conscience and morality.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  20. Welcome to Sudden Death (2020)

    Jesse Freeman is a former special forces officer and explosives expert now working a regular job as a security guard in a state-of-the-art basketball arena. Trouble erupts when a tech-savvy cadre of terrorists kidnap the team's owner and Jesse's daughter during opening night. Facing a ticking clock and impossible odds, it's up to Jesse to not only save them but also a full house of fans in this highly charged action thriller.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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Frequently asked questions

What are the best movies like Die Insel der Krebse?

The closest matches to Die Insel der Krebse are They Drive by Night (1940), The Color of Friendship (2000) and Come Sunday (2018). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.

What should I watch after Die Insel der Krebse?

Start with They Drive by Night (1940), the closest match to Die Insel der Krebse.

What is the highest-rated movie like Die Insel der Krebse?

The Enforcer (2022), rated 7.0/10 by 533 TMDB users.

What is the newest movie like Die Insel der Krebse?

Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything (2023) is the most recent release on this list.

Are there German movies like Die Insel der Krebse?

Yes: Blame Game (2019), Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything (2023) and Vincent Wants to Sea (2010).

How are movies similar to Die Insel der Krebse chosen?

First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Die Insel der Krebse, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.

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