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10 Best Movies Like Purpose

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

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#1
Lady Driver

Lady Driver

2020★ 6.4

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

When a rebellious teen embarks on a solo summer journey to connect with her roots, she finds herself in a new world, geared up for the ride of her life, and discovers she had the d...

#2
Norman

Norman

2010★ 6.1

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

A teenager pretends to be dying from cancer as a way to cope with the realities of his daily existence and his father's terminal illness....

#3
Skin

Skin

2009★ 6.4

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

#4
Imperial Dreams

Imperial Dreams

2014★ 6.6

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

A 21-year-old reformed gangster's devotion to his family and his future is put to the test when he is released from prison and returns to his old stomping grounds in Watts, Los Ang...

#5
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

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

#6
What Maisie Knew

What Maisie Knew

2013★ 7.1

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

In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle....

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