10 Best Movies Like Sanctuary
If you loved Sanctuary, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

The World Unseen
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sanctuary for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A drama centered on two women who engage in a dangerous relationship during South Africa's apartheid era....

Benjamin
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sanctuary for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Benjamin, a rising star filmmaker, is on the brink of premiering his difficult second film No Self at the London Film Festival when Billie, his hard drinking publicist, introduces ...

The Celluloid Closet
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sanctuary for fans of History. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
Exuberant, eye-opening movie that serves up a dazzling hundred-year history of the role of gay men and lesbians have had on the silver screen. Film contains fabulous footage from 1...

I Can't Think Straight
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sanctuary for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Tala, a London-based Palestinian, is preparing for her elaborate Middle Eastern wedding when she meets Leyla, a young British Indian woman who is dating her best friend. Spirited C...

Camp Belvidere
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sanctuary for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Camp Belvidere is a lesbian romance set in the 1950s about the coming of age of Camp Leader Rose and her forbidden encounter with Nurse Gin. It depicts the journey and evolution of...

Come See the Paradise
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sanctuary for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In this drama from director Alan Parker, on-the-lam Jack McGurn flees to Los Angeles and takes a job as a projectionist at a movie theater owned by a Japanese-American man. Jack fa...