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10 Best Movies Like A Promise to Keep

If you loved A Promise to Keep, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Ali and Nino

Ali and Nino

2016★ 6.5

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

Muslim prince Ali and Georgian aristocrat Nino have grown up in the Russian province of Azerbaijan. Their tragic love story sees the outbreak of the First World War and the world’s...

#2
Pickpocket

Pickpocket

1997★ 7.2

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

A small town pickpocket whose friends have moved on to higher trades finds himself bitter and unable to adapt....

#3
El Chicano

El Chicano

2019★ 6.6

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

A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law....

#4
What Time Is It There?

What Time Is It There?

2001★ 7.0

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

A street vendor with a grim home-life forges a connection with a young woman on her way to Paris....

#5
Farming

Farming

2018★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Promise to Keep 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...

#6
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Promise to Keep 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...

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