Movies like Stroszek: 20 to watch next

If you loved Stroszek (1977) — a drama film directed by Werner Herzog — these 20 movies are the closest matches.

The first picks are what fans of Stroszek most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like new york city, van and prostitute. 5 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.

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1
Berlin Alexanderplatz 2020★ 6.9
Shares: Drama
In 2015, thirty year old refugee Francis, the sole survivor of a boat that illegally crossed the Mediterranean, is drawn into Berlin's seedy underbelly.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Taxi Driver 1976★ 8.1
Shares: Drama
Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.
Stream in India on Netflix
3
The Edge of Heaven 2007★ 7.2
Shares: Drama
The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a prostitute forging a partnership, a young scholar reconciling his past, two young women falling in love, and a mother putting the shattered pieces of her life back together.
Stream in India on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel
4
Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl 1998★ 7.2
Shares: Drama
Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.
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Lost Highway 1997★ 7.6
Shares: Drama
A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.
Stream in India on MUBI
6
Gangster No. 1 2000★ 6.4
Shares: Drama
An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood changes and he recalls when he was a young punk and who joined Freddie's gang—a man he both envied and ultimately betrayed.
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Getting Go: The Go Doc Project 2013★ 6.3
Shares: Drama
Too shy to make a proper introduction, a recent college grad devises to shoot a documentary about the NYC nightlife scene in order to meet the go-go guy he’s cyber-obsessed with.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Pimp 2018★ 6.2
Shares: Drama
An urban love story set on the hard streets of the Bronx. A struggling female pimp, named Wednesday, grows up learning the game from her dad. Once he's gone she's left to look out for her prostitute mother and girlfriend Nikki.
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Blonde Venus 1932★ 6.8
Shares: Drama
In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retired German entertainer returns to the cabaret as Blonde Venus and catches the eye of a wealthy politician.
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Vice Squad 1982★ 6.2
Shares: Drama
An unlikely Hollywood hooker helps a detective set a trap for a mutilator pimp.
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Import/Export 2007★ 6.8
Shares: Drama
A nurse from Ukraine searches for a better life in the West, while an unemployed security guard from Austria heads East for the same reason. Both are looking for work, a new beginning, an existence, struggling to believe in themselves, to find a meaning in life...
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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In a Year with 13 Moons 1978★ 6.6
Shares: Drama
Elvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She has undergone a sex change for a romantic interest who has abandoned her, and she now must struggle to reconcile her past life with her present identity.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Crimes of Passion 1984★ 6.2
Shares: Drama
Fashion designer Joanna Crane leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a prostitute who's attracted the attention of a sexually frustrated private detective, and a psychopathic priest in possession of a murderous sex toy.
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The Doors 1991★ 7.1
Shares: Drama
The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.
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Enter the Void 2010★ 7.3
Shares: Drama
This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar, a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda. When Oscar is killed by police during a bust gone bad, his spirit journeys from the past -- where he sees his parents before their deaths -- to the present -- where he witnesses his own autopsy -- and then to the future, where he looks out for his sister from beyond the grave.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Cleveland Abduction 2015★ 7.3
Shares: Drama
A single mother becomes Ariel Castro's first kidnapping victim, and finds herself trapped in his home with two other women for 11 years.
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Short Sharp Shock 1998★ 6.7
Shares: Drama
Gabriel, Bobby and Costa are old friends from Altona, a multicultural hood in Hamburg. Just out of prison, Gabriel wants to turn his back on crime, but the others continue to operate as petty criminals. Friendships are tested as the trio navigate a dark world of mafia bosses and deals gone wrong.
Stream in India on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel
18
Auto Focus 2002★ 6.4
Shares: Drama
A successful TV star during the 1960s, former "Hogan's Heroes" actor Bob Crane projects a wholesome family-man image, but this front masks his persona as a sex addict who records and photographs his many encounters with women, often with the help of his seedy friend, John Henry Carpenter. This biographical drama reveals how Crane's double life takes its toll on him and his family, and ultimately contributes to his death.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Bronson 2009★ 6.9
Shares: Drama
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 by his alter ego, Charles Bronson.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Jack the Ripper 1976★ 5.8
Shares: Drama
A serial killer whose mother was a prostitute starts killing streetwalkers as a way of paying back his mother for her abuse.
Stream in India on Artiflix, Plex