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10 Best Movies Like Bastards

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

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#1
Girl in the Box

Girl in the Box

2016★ 6.7

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

The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as ...

#2
Iron Jawed Angels

Iron Jawed Angels

2004★ 6.8

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

Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote....

#3
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

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

#4
Brave the Dark

Brave the Dark

2025★ 6.6

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

When Mr. Deen discovers one of his students has been living out of his car and thrown into jail, he decides to bail him out. Determined to curb Nate’s self-destructive behavior, De...

#5
Herself

Herself

2020★ 6.7

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

Struggling to provide her daughters with a safe, happy home, Sandra decides to build one - from scratch. Using all her ingenuity to make her ambitious dream a reality, Sandra draws...

#6
The House of Tomorrow

The House of Tomorrow

2019★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Bastards for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

The film tells futurist, architect, and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller's incredible story through two teens hoping to get laid, become punk gods, and survive high school....

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