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10 Best Movies Like Checking the King

If you loved Checking the King, 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 Checking the King for fans of TV Movie & 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
Seeds of Yesterday

Seeds of Yesterday

2015★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Checking the King for fans of TV Movie & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The Sheffield family reveal and go through some home truths as their middle child inherits the Foxworth mansion. The family's ghosts looming over, and more tragedies are in store a...

#3
Sound of Christmas

Sound of Christmas

2016★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Checking the King for fans of TV Movie & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Lizzie is a young piano teacher working at a music school while trying to save enough money for a Steinway piano. The school is gearing up for their major Christmas fundraiser and ...

#4
I Am Elizabeth Smart

I Am Elizabeth Smart

2017★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Checking the King for fans of TV Movie & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The story of Elizabeth Smart's kidnapping and captivity, as told from her perspective....

#5
Cheaters

Cheaters

2000★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Checking the King for fans of TV Movie & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition....

#6
The Magic of Ordinary Days

The Magic of Ordinary Days

2005★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Checking the King for fans of TV Movie & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII....

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