Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 14, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Root

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

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#1
Gloria

Gloria

2013★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Root for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Gloria is a 58-year-old divorcée. Her children have all left home but she has no desire to spend her days and nights alone. Determined to defy old age and loneliness, she rushes he...

#2
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Root 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
Kisses

Kisses

2008★ 7.1

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

Two kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home on Christmas Day and spend a night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin....

#4
Sergio

Sergio

2020★ 6.6

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

A sweeping drama set in the chaotic aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq, where the life of top UN diplomat Brazilian Sérgio Vieira de Mello hangs in the balance during the most tr...

#5
Electricity

Electricity

2014★ 5.8

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

A woman leaves her seaside hometown to search for her long-lost brother, experiencing hallucinations brought on by her epilepsy during her trip....

#6
Tigertail

Tigertail

2020★ 6.7

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

A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter....

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