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.
Love Finds You in Valentine
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Roots for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Kennedy Blaine, a Californian girl, inherits a ranch in the small town of Valentine in Nebraska. Before she sells the property, she decides to spend the summer in her house and lea...
Heaven
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Roots for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Heaven Leigh Casteel, gifted and intelligent, is the eldest of five dirt-poor children struggling to survive in a mountain shack. As she endures neglect and abuse, Heaven discovers...
Girl in the Box
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Roots for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as ...
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Roots for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devot...
Girl Fight
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Roots for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Inspired by a true story, Girl Fight recounts the harrowing story of a 16-year-old, stellar high school student whose life spirals downward when her former friends conspire to uplo...
From Straight A's to XXX
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Roots for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
When a change of circumstances leaves Miriam unable to pay her college tuition, she makes a surprising decision: to start performing in adult films, using the pseudonym Belle Knox....