
10 Best Movies Like Cry Freedom
If you loved Cry Freedom, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Ricochet
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cry Freedom for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
An attorney is terrorized by the criminal he put away years ago when he was a cop....

Simon of the Desert
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cry Freedom for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him....

Sons of Denmark
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cry Freedom for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Denmark, in the near future. One year after a major bomb attack in Copenhagen, political radicalization has intensified and ethnic tensions are increasing. As next year's parliamen...

The George McKenna Story
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cry Freedom for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Washington plays a school principal in a tough inner city Los Angeles high school out to rid it of drugs, gangs, low moral of teachers, and restore educational values. Based on a t...

The Count of Monte-Cristo
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cry Freedom for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A TV adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the n...

Saint Laurent
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cry Freedom for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
1967-1976. As one of history's greatest fashion designers entered a decade of freedom, neither came out of it in one piece....