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10 Best Movies Like Kandahar

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

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#1
Dirty Angels

Dirty Angels

2024★ 6.1

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

During the United States' 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, a group of female soldiers posing as medical relief are sent back in to rescue a group of kidnapped teenagers caught bet...

#2
Topside

Topside

2022★ 6.7

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

Deep in the underbelly of New York City, a five year-old girl and her mother live among a community that has claimed the abandoned subway tunnels as their home. After a sudden poli...

#3
Suburbia

Suburbia

1984★ 6.7

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

When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like...

#4
Breathe

Breathe

2017★ 7.4

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

Based on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralyzed....

#5
She Made Them Do It

She Made Them Do It

2012★ 5.8

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

"She Made Them Do It" follows the twisted life of Sarah Pender, a charismatic, intelligent young woman who would become one of the country’s most sought after fugitives....

#6
Ayka

Ayka

2018★ 6.9

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

A young Kyrgyz immigrant tries to eke out a living in Moscow after abandoning her newborn and fleeing the hospital....

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