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10 Best Movies Like Alas and Alack

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

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#1
The Road Dance

The Road Dance

2022★ 6.7

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

A young girl lives in the Outer Hebrides in a small village in the years just before WWI. Isolated and hard by the shore, her life takes a dramatic change when a terrible tragedy b...

#2
The Kindness of Strangers

The Kindness of Strangers

2019★ 6.3

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

Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who get...

#3
Return

Return

2011★ 6.4

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

Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes....

#4
Bastard Out of Carolina

Bastard Out of Carolina

1996★ 7.2

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

A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer a...

#5
Salomé

Salomé

2013★ 6.2

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

After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his k...

#6
Skin

Skin

2009★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Alas and Alack 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....

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