If you loved Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, try My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done has roughly 5.7× fewer votes than Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

2009 · dir. Werner Herzog

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My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

2010 · dir. Werner Herzog

What they share

Both films are directed by Werner Herzog, and they both carry the raw, surreal mood tags, and they sit in Crime / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done is

San Diego. Morning fog. A parakeet's squawk. An actor snaps, playing out Oedipal rage for an audience of none. Cops surround the house, his fiancée pleads, and a theater director fans the flames. Herzog's crime story plays like a very dark episode of *Columbo*.

If you loved Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, try My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

What they share

What My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done is

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