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10 Best Movies Like Red Dust

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

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#1
Escape from Pretoria

Escape from Pretoria

2020★ 7.2

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

South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion to escape ...

#2
In My Country

In My Country

2004★ 5.9

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

An American reporter and an Afrikaans poet meet and fall in love while covering South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings....

#3
Disgrace

Disgrace

2008★ 6.2

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

Disgrace is the story of a South African professor of English who loses everything: his reputation, his job, his peace of mind, his good looks, his dreams of artistic success, and ...

#4
A Dry White Season

A Dry White Season

1989★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Red Dust 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
Shepherds and Butchers

Shepherds and Butchers

2017★ 6.3

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

A lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed....

#6
Embattled

Embattled

2020★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Red Dust for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

The eldest son of a ruthlessly tough MMA champion must fight his way out of the abusive cycle his father has continued....

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