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

Skin
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Ascension for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era....

Bastard Out of Carolina
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Ascension for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer a...

Babylon
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Ascension 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...

Return
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Ascension for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes....

Savaged
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Ascension for fans of Drama. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.
After thugs brutalize a deaf-mute woman, the spirit of an Apache warrior takes over her lifeless body and sets out on a bloodthirsty quest for revenge....

Vanya on 42nd Street
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Ascension for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
An uninterrupted rehearsal of Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya' plays out by a company of actors. The setting: their run-down theater with an unusable stage and crumbling ceiling. The play i...