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7 Movies to Watch Instead of Joker: Folie à Deux
ComicBook.comStory by Madeline Lapreziosa
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Joker: Folie à Deux may have bombed, but these 7 similarly-themed films offer a darker, more compelling cinematic experience for discerning viewers.
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- Taxi Driver, the 1976 Martin Scorsese classic, is cited as a major influence on the Joker franchise, with Robert De Niro starring in both films as troubled anti-heroes.
- Nightcrawler, the 2014 psychological thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal, explores similar themes of moral decay and the descent into villainy as the Joker movies.
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Robert De Niro, Jake Gyllenhaal, Christian Bale, Jamie Foxx, Tom Cruise, Anthony Perkins, Viggo Mortensen, Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, DC Comics, Taxi Driver, Joker: Folie à Deux, Nightcrawler, American Psycho, Collateral, Psycho, A History of Violence, Natural Born Killers