10 Best Movies Like Roots
If you loved Roots, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.
Almost Friends
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Roots for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
A man in his mid-20s, still living at home with his mother and stepfather, puts all his eggs in one basket: the girl who works at his local coffee shop. The problem is, she has a s...
Hands of Stone
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Roots for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives....
Bastard Out of Carolina
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Roots for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer a...
Babylon
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Roots 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...
Starving in Suburbia
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Roots for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site ...
The Boy with Green Hair
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Roots for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Peter, an orphaned boy, is adopted by Gramp Frye after his parents are killed in Europe while doing war relief work. The boy feels safe with his new caretaker, but when he is taunt...