Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 11, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Cry for Help

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

🏆

Expert Review & Ratings

See our full critical analysis and audience score for Cry for Help.

View Review →
Advertisement
#1
Adopt a Highway

Adopt a Highway

2019★ 6.7

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

Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a 3rd strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn’t...

#2
Dirt Music

Dirt Music

2020★ 6.2

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

Georgie is slowly suffocating in a loveless marriage to fishing tycoon Jim Buckridge. Handsome poacher Lu is an irresistible symbol of the excitement she craves. A passionate affai...

#3
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#4
Maria's Lovers

Maria's Lovers

1984★ 5.9

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

A World War II prisoner returns home to his childhood sweetheart. However, back home, he discovers that he has to compete to win her love....

#5
Salomé

Salomé

2013★ 6.2

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

After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his k...

#6
Skin

Skin

2009★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cry for Help 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....

Advertisement