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10 Best Movies Like The Explosion

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

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#1
Greenberg

Greenberg

2010★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Explosion for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Roger Greenberg, a failed musician now making a living as a carpenter in New York, returns to Los Angeles to house-sit for his brother. He's stranded there—since he doesn't drive—u...

#2
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

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

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of gettin...

#3
The Sound Barrier

The Sound Barrier

1952★ 6.5

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

A young RAF pilot tests his father-in-law’s prototype supersonic aircraft to the limit, at a time of intense development in the field of aviation, just as commercial jet airliners ...

#4
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Explosion 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
A Dry White Season

A Dry White Season

1989★ 6.6

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

During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody....

#6
The Wild One

The Wild One

1953★ 6.6

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

The Black Rebels Motorcycle Club ride into the small California town of Wrightsville, eager to raise hell. Brooding gang leader Johnny Strabler takes a liking to Kathie, the daught...

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