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10 Best Movies Like Purgatory

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

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#1
The Book of Daniel

The Book of Daniel

2013★ 7.0

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

Taken into slavery after the fall of Jerusalem in 605 B.C., Daniel is forced to serve the most powerful king in the world, King Nebuchadnezzar. Faced with imminent death, Daniel pr...

#2
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

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

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell....

#3
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Purgatory 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
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020★ 6.2

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

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....

#5
Girl in the Box

Girl in the Box

2016★ 6.7

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

The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as ...

#6
Hungry Hearts

Hungry Hearts

2015★ 6.5

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

The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance....

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