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10 Best Movies Like Names Live Nowhere

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

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#1
Skin

Skin

2009★ 6.4

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

Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era....

#2
Tori and Lokita

Tori and Lokita

2022★ 6.8

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

In Belgium today, a young boy and an adolescent girl who have travelled alone from Africa pit their invincible friendship against the difficult conditions of their exile....

#3
Yao

Yao

2019★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Names Live Nowhere for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

From his village in northern Senegal, Yao is a 13-year-old boy ready to do anything to meet his hero: Seydou Tall, a famous French actor. Invited to Dakar to promote his new book, ...

#4
Away We Go

Away We Go

2009★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Names Live Nowhere for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Verona and Burt have moved to Colorado to be close to Burt's parents but, with Verona expecting their first child, Burt's parents inexplicably decide to move to Belgium, now leavin...

#5
The Power of One

The Power of One

1992★ 7.5

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

PK, an English orphan terrorized for his family's political beliefs in Africa, turns to his only friend, a kindly world-wise prisoner, Geel Piet. Geel teaches him how to box with t...

#6
Cry Freedom

Cry Freedom

1987★ 7.0

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

A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods is a white liberal journalist...

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