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10 Best Movies Like Samaritan

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

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#1
A Journal for Jordan

A Journal for Jordan

2021★ 7.0

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

Based on the true story of First Sergeant Charles Monroe King, a soldier deployed to Iraq begins to keep a journal of love and advice for his infant son. Back at home, senior New Y...

#2
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

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

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of gettin...

#3
Mindwalk

Mindwalk

1991★ 6.9

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

#4
Norman

Norman

2010★ 6.1

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

A teenager pretends to be dying from cancer as a way to cope with the realities of his daily existence and his father's terminal illness....

#5
Embattled

Embattled

2020★ 6.7

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

#6
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

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

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