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10 Best Movies Like King

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

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#1
American Son

American Son

2019★ 6.1

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

Time passes and tension mounts in a Florida police station as an estranged interracial couple awaits news of their missing teenage son....

#2
Heaven

Heaven

2019★ 6.2

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

Heaven Leigh Casteel, gifted and intelligent, is the eldest of five dirt-poor children struggling to survive in a mountain shack. As she endures neglect and abuse, Heaven discovers...

#3
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

1996★ 7.1

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

A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devot...

#4
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

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

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site ...

#5
Love Finds You in Valentine

Love Finds You in Valentine

2016★ 6.4

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

Kennedy Blaine, a Californian girl, inherits a ranch in the small town of Valentine in Nebraska. Before she sells the property, she decides to spend the summer in her house and lea...

#6
Barbarians at the Gate

Barbarians at the Gate

1993★ 6.8

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

F. Ross Johnson decides to buyout his own tobacco firm RJR Nabisco after the plans of the launch of his new product, a smokeless cigarette Premier, fail on account of market rumour...

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