Movies Like My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2010)

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done is a 2010 crime, drama, thriller film from Werner Herzog with a MovieMagicScore of 6.1/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Daybreak and Angel Heart.

Crime Drama Thriller

Daybreak

1939

After committing a murder, a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events that led him to the killing.

7.6

MagicScore

Angel Heart

1987

A down-and-out Brooklyn detective is hired to track down a singer on an odyssey that will take him through the desperate streets of Harlem, the smoke-filled jazz clubs of New Orleans, and the swamps of Louisiana and its seedy underworld of voodoo.

7.1

MagicScore

Horsemen

2009

A recently widowed detective still grieving over his wife's death discovers a shocking connection between himself and the suspects in a serial killing spree linked to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

5.9

MagicScore

Zodiac

2007

The Zodiac murders cause the lives of Paul Avery, David Toschi and Robert Graysmith to intersect.

7.5

MagicScore

Insomnia

2002

Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.

7.0

MagicScore

The Salton Sea

2002

After the murder of his beloved wife, a man in search of redemption is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey, he befriends slacker Jimmy "The Finn", becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette from her own demons, and gets entangled in a web of deceit full of unexpected twists and turns.

6.5

MagicScore

Blue Velvet

1986

The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.

7.6

MagicScore

Tell-Tale

2009

A man's recently transplanted heart leads him on a frantic search to find the donor's killer before a similar fate befalls him.

5.3

MagicScore

Sound of Violence

2021

As a child, the brutal murder of her family made Alexis regain her hearing along with synesthetic abilities. Now as an adult, she finds solace in the sounds of bodily harm. But when she’s told she might lose her hearing again, she escalates her gruesome sound experiments in a quest to compose her masterpiece.

5.0

MagicScore

#10

The Little Things

2021

Deputy Sheriff Joe "Deke" Deacon joins forces with Sgt. Jim Baxter to search for a serial killer who's terrorizing Los Angeles. As they track the culprit, Baxter is unaware that the investigation is dredging up echoes of Deke's past, uncovering disturbing secrets that could threaten more than his case.

6.3

MagicScore

#11

Frequency

2000

When a rare phenomenon gives police officer John Sullivan the chance to speak to his father, 30 years in the past, he takes the opportunity to prevent his dad's tragic death. After his actions inadvertently give rise to a series of brutal murders he and his father must find a way to fix the consequences of altering time.

7.3

MagicScore

#12

Nancy Drew

2007

Intrepid teenage private eye Nancy Drew heads to Tinseltown with her father to investigate the unsolved murder of a movie star in this old-fashioned whodunit based on Carolyn Keene's popular series of books for young adults. But can the small-town girl cut through the Hollywood hype to solve the case?

6.1

MagicScore

#13

Rampo Noir

2005

An anthology film consisting of four segments based on literary works by Edogawa Ranpo.

5.6

MagicScore

#14

Den of Thieves

2018

A gritty crime saga which follows the lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank.

6.9

MagicScore

#15

Strange Harvest

2025

Detectives are thrust into a chilling hunt for a sadistic serial killer from the past whose return marks the beginning of a new wave of grotesque, otherworldly crimes tied to a cosmic force.

6.7

MagicScore

#16

Nightcrawler

2014

When Lou Bloom, desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news veteran.

7.7

MagicScore

#17

24 Exposures

2013

Billy is a fetish photographer whose models begin to turn up dead. Michael, a melancholic cop, is tasked with investigating him.

4.0

MagicScore

#18

Solace

2015

A psychic doctor, John Clancy, works with an FBI special agent in search of a serial killer.

6.4

MagicScore

#19

The Reckoning

2014

When a detective is called in to investigate the roadside execution of his partner, he discovers at the crime scene a data card from a video camera. The card contains footage shot by two runaway teenagers who are making a documentary about the drug related death of a sibling. The detective retraces the teen's journey and soon begins to uncover a trail of the dead that leads all the way back to police headquarters.

5.1

MagicScore

#20

The Boston Strangler

1968

Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It is seen almost exclusively from the point of view of the investigators who have very few clues to build a case upon.

6.7

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?

The top films similar to My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done by MovieMagicScore are Daybreak (7.6), Angel Heart (7.1), Horsemen (5.9). Each shares crime/drama/thriller themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done worth watching?

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.1/10 from 217 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2010) is a crime, drama, thriller film directed by Werner Herzog, starring Michael Shannon, Willem Dafoe, Chloë Sevigny.

Where can I find more recommendations like My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?

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About movies like My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

This ranked list pairs My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2010), a crime and drama and thriller film from Werner Herzog, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Michael Shannon take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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