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10 Best Movies Like The Upthrown Stone

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

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#1
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020★ 6.2

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

#2
Farming

Farming

2018★ 6.2

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

Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Ins...

#3
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Upthrown Stone 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
Mindwalk

Mindwalk

1991★ 6.9

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

On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Jack, a failed presidential candidate, Tom, his ex-speechwriter and Sonia, a physicist, engage in an intellectual conversation about poli...

#5
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

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

#6
A Dry White Season

A Dry White Season

1989★ 6.6

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

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