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10 Best Movies Like Timbuktu

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

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#1
Better Start Running

Better Start Running

2018★ 5.9

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

An eclectic band of misfits becomes an unlikely family as they take a wild journey in the name of love while on the run from an overzealous FBI duo who want them dead or alive - pr...

#2
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Timbuktu 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
Sergio

Sergio

2020★ 6.6

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

A sweeping drama set in the chaotic aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq, where the life of top UN diplomat Brazilian Sérgio Vieira de Mello hangs in the balance during the most tr...

#4
Kisses

Kisses

2008★ 7.1

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

Two kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home on Christmas Day and spend a night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin....

#5
Farming

Farming

2018★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Timbuktu 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...

#6
The River

The River

1984★ 6.3

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

Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer a...

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