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10 Best Movies Like My Name Akim

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

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#1
Just Charlie

Just Charlie

2017★ 7.0

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

Football star Charlie has the world at her feet. With a top club desperate to sign her, her future is seemingly mapped out. But the teenager sees only a nightmare. Raised as a boy,...

#2
Romeos

Romeos

2011★ 6.8

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

Lukas, 20, is a prisoner in his own body. As a pre-op transgender person, he is constantly finding himself trapped in uncomfortable, compromising positions. His best friend, Ine in...

#3
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My Name Akim 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
Farming

Farming

2018★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My Name Akim 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...

#5
Finsterworld

Finsterworld

2013★ 6.4

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

The film tells different stories in a kind of parallel Germany about love, affection and hatred....

#6
Port Authority

Port Authority

2019★ 6.0

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

Paul, a 20 year old midwesterner, arrives at the central bus station and quickly catches eyes with Wye, a 22 year old girl voguing on the sidewalk. After Paul seeks her out in secr...

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