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

Return
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Optimist 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....

Come Sunday
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Optimist 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....

The Lost Husband
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Optimist for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Trying to put her life back together after the death of her husband, Libby and her children move to her estranged Aunt's goat farm in central Texas....

All Day and a Night
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Optimist for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....

Bastard Out of Carolina
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Optimist 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 Optimist 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...