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10 Best Movies Like Canary

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

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#1
Moffie

Moffie

2020★ 6.6

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

A young man in 1981 South Africa must complete his brutal and racist two years of compulsory military service while desperately maintaining the secrecy of his homosexuality....

#2
Military Wives

Military Wives

2020★ 6.5

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

Inspired by global phenomenon of military wives choirs, the story celebrates a band of misfit women who form a choir on a military base. As unexpected bonds of friendship flourish,...

#3
Sarafina!

Sarafina!

1992★ 6.1

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

The plot centers on students involved in the Soweto Riots, in opposition to the implementation of Afrikaans as the language of instruction in schools. The stage version presents a ...

#4
Bent

Bent

1997★ 6.9

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

Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for his life. Eventually Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to b...

#5
Hair

Hair

1979★ 7.3

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

Upon receiving his draft notice and leaving his family ranch in Oklahoma, Claude heads to New York and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to boot camp....

#6
Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

2001★ 7.5

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

Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig undergoes a personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an 'internationally ignored' but divinely t...

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