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10 Best Movies Like The Forest

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

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#1
The Magic of Ordinary Days

The Magic of Ordinary Days

2005★ 7.4

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

Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII....

#2
L'Emprise

L'Emprise

2015★ 7.7

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

"L'emprise" is the story of a drama, adapted from the moving book-witness "Acquitted", by Alexandra Lange. The story of a mother of four children, which is found in March 2012 in t...

#3
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

1996★ 7.1

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

A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devot...

#4
Heaven

Heaven

2019★ 6.2

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

Heaven Leigh Casteel, gifted and intelligent, is the eldest of five dirt-poor children struggling to survive in a mountain shack. As she endures neglect and abuse, Heaven discovers...

#5
Iron Jawed Angels

Iron Jawed Angels

2004★ 6.8

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

Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote....

#6
TalhotBlond

TalhotBlond

2012★ 6.3

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

Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately lead...

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