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10 Best Movies Like Formation

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

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#1
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020★ 6.2

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

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....

#2
Farming

Farming

2018★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Formation 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...

#3
Norman

Norman

2010★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Formation 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....

#4
God's Pocket

God's Pocket

2014★ 5.8

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

A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist and the young man's mother complicate matters....

#5
Scandalous Sex

Scandalous Sex

2004★ 6.9

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

A daughter seeks to restore the reputation of her disgraced father, a wronged college professor. With help of a professional student, she must overcome an ambitious sorority bitch ...

#6
The Lords of Discipline

The Lords of Discipline

1983★ 6.6

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

Will arrives for his last year at Military Academy, in the Deep South USA, in the 1960's. A black student, Pearce, has been accepted, for the first time and Will is asked to keep a...

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