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10 Best Movies Like A Ship Comes In

If you loved A Ship Comes In, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Farming

Farming

2018★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Ship Comes In 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...

#2
The Nest

The Nest

2020★ 6.1

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

Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of the...

#3
Skin

Skin

2009★ 6.4

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

Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era....

#4
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Ship Comes In 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
The Padre

The Padre

2018★ 5.9

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

American retired Judge Randall Nemes and his hired gun, Gaspar, track down a con man posing as a priest in a small Colombian town only to be thrown off-course by a scrappy 16-year-...

#6
Mindwalk

Mindwalk

1991★ 6.9

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

On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Jack, a failed presidential candidate, Tom, his ex-speechwriter and Sonia, a physicist, engage in an intellectual conversation about poli...

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