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10 Best Movies Like The Scum

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

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#1
The Unforgivable

The Unforgivable

2021★ 7.4

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

A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past....

#2
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

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

#3
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

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

#4
The Girl in the Book

The Girl in the Book

2015★ 5.8

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

The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present....

#5
El Chicano

El Chicano

2019★ 6.6

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

A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law....

#6
Nine Lives

Nine Lives

2005★ 6.1

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

Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life....

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