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10 Best Movies Like Scapegoat

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

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#1
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

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

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

#2
Farming

Farming

2018★ 6.2

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

Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Ins...

#3
In This World

In This World

2003★ 6.2

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

Torn straight from the headlines, Michael Winterbottom's compelling and prescient 'In This World' follows young Afghan Jamal and his older cousin Enayat as they embark on a hazardo...

#4
The Minister

The Minister

2011★ 6.4

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

Transport Minister Bertrand Saint-Jean is awoken in the middle of the night by his head of staff. A bus has gone off the road into a gully. He has no choice but to go to the scene ...

#5
Sergio

Sergio

2020★ 6.6

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

A sweeping drama set in the chaotic aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq, where the life of top UN diplomat Brazilian Sérgio Vieira de Mello hangs in the balance during the most tr...

#6
24 Days

24 Days

2014★ 6.6

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

When Ilan Halimi is kidnapped for ransom because Jewish and supposedly rich, his family and the police start a race against time to save him from the tortures of the "gang of barba...

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