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10 Best Movies Like The Ants

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

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#1
I Still Hide to Smoke

I Still Hide to Smoke

2017★ 6.9

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

Α tragi-comedy about 9 women of different ages and various backgrounds that gather in an Algerian hammam to talk about their lives....

#2
Òlòtūré

Òlòtūré

2019★ 6.3

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

In Lagos, Nigeria, young, naive Nigerian journalist Òlòtūré goes undercover to expose the shady underworld of human trafficking. Unused to this brutal environment, crawling with ru...

#3
The Nest

The Nest

2020★ 6.1

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

Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of the...

#4
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

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

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell....

#5
El Chicano

El Chicano

2019★ 6.6

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

A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law....

#6
The Padre

The Padre

2018★ 5.9

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

American retired Judge Randall Nemes and his hired gun, Gaspar, track down a con man posing as a priest in a small Colombian town only to be thrown off-course by a scrappy 16-year-...

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