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10 Best Movies Like The Blue Exile

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

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#1
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Blue Exile 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...

#2
Honey

Honey

2010★ 6.8

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

In the remote and undeveloped eastern Black Sea region, a six-year-old boy (Yusuf) wanders through the woods searching for his lost father, trying to make sense of his life.His fat...

#3
About Dry Grasses

About Dry Grasses

2023★ 7.7

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

A young art teacher hopes to be transferred to Istanbul after completing his mandatory duty in a remote village school in Anatolia. After accusations of inappropriate contact with ...

#4
Norman

Norman

2010★ 6.1

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

A teenager pretends to be dying from cancer as a way to cope with the realities of his daily existence and his father's terminal illness....

#5
Paper Lives

Paper Lives

2021★ 8.0

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

In the streets of Istanbul, ailing waste warehouse worker Mehmet takes a small boy under his wing and must soon confront his own traumatic childhood....

#6
Farming

Farming

2018★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Blue Exile 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...

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