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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
An American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong

An American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong

2009★ 6.7

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

A fourth grader and her friends deal with bullying from a more popular girl in their class....

#2
The Tracey Fragments

The Tracey Fragments

2007★ 6.0

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

Tracey Berkowitz, 15, a self-described normal girl, loses her 9-year old brother, Sonny. In flashbacks and fragments, we meet her overbearing parents and the sweet, clueless Sonny....

#3
El Chicano

El Chicano

2019★ 6.6

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

A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law....

#4
Guilty by Suspicion

Guilty by Suspicion

1991★ 6.5

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

Owing to his alleged involvement with communist parties, film director David Merrill is forbidden from working in Hollywood. He decides to fight for his rights and faces numerous c...

#5
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

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

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site ...

#6
Won't Back Down

Won't Back Down

2012★ 6.1

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

Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken...

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