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10 Best Movies Like Close the Gap

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

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#1
A Dry White Season

A Dry White Season

1989★ 6.6

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

During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody....

#2
Norman

Norman

2010★ 6.1

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

A teenager pretends to be dying from cancer as a way to cope with the realities of his daily existence and his father's terminal illness....

#3
Gigi & Nate

Gigi & Nate

2022★ 7.5

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

A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend....

#4
Skin

Skin

2009★ 6.4

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

Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era....

#5
Return

Return

2011★ 6.4

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

Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes....

#6
Farming

Farming

2018★ 6.2

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

Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Ins...

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