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10 Best Movies Like Fences

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

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#1
Moonlight

Moonlight

2016★ 7.4

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

The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of fallin...

#2
The Birth of a Nation

The Birth of a Nation

2016★ 6.6

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

Nat Turner, a former slave in America, leads a liberation movement in 1831 to free African-Americans in Virginia that results in a violent retaliation from whites....

#3
Hidden Figures

Hidden Figures

2016★ 8.1

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

The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest o...

#4
Man Down

Man Down

2015★ 6.0

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

When a U.S. Marine returns home from Afghanistan, he finds that the place he once called home is no better than the battlefields he fought on overseas. Accompanied by his best frie...

#5
From the Land of the Moon

From the Land of the Moon

2016★ 6.6

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

In 1950s France, a free-spirited woman trapped in an arranged marriage falls in love with an injured veteran of the Indochinese War....

#6
Florence Foster Jenkins

Florence Foster Jenkins

2016★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Fences for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice....