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10 Best Movies Like It Is Lit

If you loved It Is Lit, 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 It Is Lit 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
That Evening Sun

That Evening Sun

2009★ 6.7

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

An aging Tennessee farmer returns to his homestead and must confront a family betrayal, the reappearance of an old enemy, and the loss of his farm....

#3
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It Is Lit 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
Home

Home

2021★ 6.7

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

An ex-felon returns home from prison and must confront the demons of his past....

#5
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

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

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of gettin...

#6
The Nest

The Nest

2020★ 6.1

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

Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of the...

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