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10 Best Movies Like Sankara

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

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#1
Scandalous Sex

Scandalous Sex

2004★ 6.9

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

A daughter seeks to restore the reputation of her disgraced father, a wronged college professor. With help of a professional student, she must overcome an ambitious sorority bitch ...

#2
Salomé

Salomé

2013★ 6.2

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

After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his k...

#3
Maria's Lovers

Maria's Lovers

1984★ 5.9

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

A World War II prisoner returns home to his childhood sweetheart. However, back home, he discovers that he has to compete to win her love....

#4
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

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

#5
Gabriel's Redemption: Part I

Gabriel's Redemption: Part I

2023★ 7.1

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

After leaving his prestigious post at the University of Toronto, Gabriel embarks on a new journey with Julia, and he is eager to become a father. However, Gabriel's idyllic vision...

#6
Here

Here

2024★ 6.5

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

An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between cou...

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