
10 Best Movies Like By the Roots
If you loved By the Roots, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

The Girl in the Book
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to By the Roots for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present....

My Brilliant Career
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to By the Roots for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A young woman who is determined to maintain her independence finds herself at odds with her family who wants her to tame her wild side and get married....

I Can't Think Straight
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to By the Roots for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Tala, a London-based Palestinian, is preparing for her elaborate Middle Eastern wedding when she meets Leyla, a young British Indian woman who is dating her best friend. Spirited C...

The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to By the Roots for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Minnie Goetze is a 15-year-old aspiring comic-book artist, coming of age in the haze of the 1970s in San Francisco. Insatiably curious about the world around her, Minnie is a prett...

The Safety of Objects
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to By the Roots 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...

The Trials of Cate McCall
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to By the Roots for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicte...