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10 Best Movies Like This Was America

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

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#1
Mindwalk

Mindwalk

1991★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Was America 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...

#2
Topside

Topside

2022★ 6.7

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

Deep in the underbelly of New York City, a five year-old girl and her mother live among a community that has claimed the abandoned subway tunnels as their home. After a sudden poli...

#3
Sky

Sky

2015★ 6.2

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

A woman embarks on a journey alone across the United States after fleeing from her violent husband....

#4
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Was America 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....

#5
The Padre

The Padre

2018★ 5.9

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

American retired Judge Randall Nemes and his hired gun, Gaspar, track down a con man posing as a priest in a small Colombian town only to be thrown off-course by a scrappy 16-year-...

#6
Suburbia

Suburbia

1984★ 6.7

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

When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like...

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