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10 Best Movies Like The Soloist

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

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#1
Shepherds and Butchers

Shepherds and Butchers

2017★ 6.3

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

A lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed....

#2
Claire Andrieux

Claire Andrieux

2020★ 6.3

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

A single forty-something, with a well-regulated life, sees a heavy secret poisoning her budding relationship with a man she fell in love with....

#3
Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story

Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story

2004★ 6.0

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

Redemption tells the story of Stan "Tookie" Williams, founder of the Crips L.A. street gang. Story follows his fall into gang-banging, his prison term, and his work writing childre...

#4
Power

Power

1986★ 5.9

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

Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the country. When his long-time friend and client Ohio senator Sam Hastings decides to q...

#5
Three Coins in the Fountain

Three Coins in the Fountain

1954★ 5.9

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

Three American roommates working in Italy wish for the man of their dreams after throwing coins into Rome's magnificent Trevi Fountain. Frances, a secretary at a government agency,...

#6
Ghetto

Ghetto

2006★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Soloist for fans of History. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

In 1942, in Vilna, the Nazi annihilate 55,000 Jews and squeeze the 15,000 survivors in a seven blocks ghetto. The twenty-two year old sadistic commander Kittel is assigned to admin...