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10 Best Movies Like According to the Rules

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

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#1
TalhotBlond

TalhotBlond

2012★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to According to the Rules for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately lead...

#2
The Magic of Ordinary Days

The Magic of Ordinary Days

2005★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to According to the Rules for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII....

#3
Heaven

Heaven

2019★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to According to the Rules for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Heaven Leigh Casteel, gifted and intelligent, is the eldest of five dirt-poor children struggling to survive in a mountain shack. As she endures neglect and abuse, Heaven discovers...

#4
American Son

American Son

2019★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to According to the Rules for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Time passes and tension mounts in a Florida police station as an estranged interracial couple awaits news of their missing teenage son....

#5
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to According to the Rules for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site ...

#6
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

1996★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to According to the Rules for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devot...

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