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10 Best Movies Like Anxiety

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

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#1
Paper Lives

Paper Lives

2021★ 8.0

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

In the streets of Istanbul, ailing waste warehouse worker Mehmet takes a small boy under his wing and must soon confront his own traumatic childhood....

#2
The Safety of Objects

The Safety of Objects

2002★ 6.4

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

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, an...

#3
Cesar Chavez

Cesar Chavez

2014★ 6.2

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

A biography of the civil-rights activist and labor organizer Cesar Chavez. Chronicling the birth of a modern American labour movement, Cesar Chavez tells the story of the famed ci...

#4
Bastard Out of Carolina

Bastard Out of Carolina

1996★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Anxiety 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
A Dry White Season

A Dry White Season

1989★ 6.6

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

During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody....

#6
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

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

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of gettin...

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