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10 Best Movies Like 17 Years After

If you loved 17 Years After, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
All About Ah-Long

All About Ah-Long

1989★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 17 Years After for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Ah-Long, a father living a low-class lifestyle, while trying to raise his son, Porky. The strong bond between father and son is tested when a chance encounter from Ah-Long's ex-gir...

#2
Farming

Farming

2018★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 17 Years After for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Ins...

#3
Girl in the Box

Girl in the Box

2016★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 17 Years After for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as ...

#4
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 17 Years After for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#5
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 17 Years After for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

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

#6
Norman

Norman

2010★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 17 Years After for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A teenager pretends to be dying from cancer as a way to cope with the realities of his daily existence and his father's terminal illness....

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