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10 Best Movies Like Showing Roots

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

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#1
Up for Love

Up for Love

2016★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Showing Roots for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Diane is a well-known lawyer, divorced for three years. She loses her mobile telephone and receives a call from the person who finds it. That person is Alexandre, a charming man an...

#2
Titanic

Titanic

1997★ 7.9

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

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and...

#3
Inside Out

Inside Out

2015★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Showing Roots for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

When 11-year-old Riley moves to a new city, her Emotions team up to help her through the transition. Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness work together, but when Joy and Sadness g...

#4
Ex Machina

Ex Machina

2015★ 7.6

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

Caleb, a coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But ...

#5
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

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

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....

#6
The Perks of Being a Wallflower

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

2012★ 7.8

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

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991. High school freshman Charlie is a wallflower, always watching life from the sidelines, until two senior students, Sam and her stepbrother Patrick, b...