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10 Best Movies Like Anthracite

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

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#1
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Anthracite 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....

#2
Cardboard Boxer

Cardboard Boxer

2016★ 6.3

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

Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl....

#3
Resurrecting the Champ

Resurrecting the Champ

2007★ 6.3

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

Up-and-coming sports reporter rescues a homeless man ("Champ") only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to ...

#4
My Joy

My Joy

2010★ 6.3

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

Georgy is driving a load of freight into Russia when, after an unpleasant encounter with the police at a border crossing, he finds himself giving a lift to a strange old man with d...

#5
The Coach

The Coach

2018★ 6.6

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

Contemporary Russia. After he flubs a penalty kick, a humiliated national soccer player quits the game. He flees to a small town, where he decides to coach their local team....

#6
My Friend Ivan Lapshin

My Friend Ivan Lapshin

1985★ 6.7

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

Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well....

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