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10 Best Movies Like Punchbag

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

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#1
Farming

Farming

2018★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Punchbag 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...

#2
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Punchbag 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...

#3
Iron Jawed Angels

Iron Jawed Angels

2004★ 6.8

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

Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote....

#4
A Dry White Season

A Dry White Season

1989★ 6.6

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

During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody....

#5
Scandalous Sex

Scandalous Sex

2004★ 6.9

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

A daughter seeks to restore the reputation of her disgraced father, a wronged college professor. With help of a professional student, she must overcome an ambitious sorority bitch ...

#6
Return

Return

2011★ 6.4

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

Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes....

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