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10 Best Movies Like Release

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

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#1
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2024★ 6.5

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

An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between cou...

#2
Mindwalk

Mindwalk

1991★ 6.9

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

On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Jack, a failed presidential candidate, Tom, his ex-speechwriter and Sonia, a physicist, engage in an intellectual conversation about poli...

#3
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Release 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
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

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

#5
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020★ 6.2

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

#6
Chatroom

Chatroom

2010★ 5.8

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

When strangers Jim, Eva, Emily and Mo meet William online in his new 'Chelsea Teens!' chatroom, they're completely seduced by his fast-talking, charismatic character. But beneath t...

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