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10 Best Movies Like To Be First

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

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#1
Something the Lord Made

Something the Lord Made

2004★ 7.9

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

A dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas....

#2
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

2009★ 7.8

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

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story is a movie based on the life story of world-renowned neurosurgeon Ben Carson from 1961 to 1987....

#3
2 Hearts

2 Hearts

2020★ 7.2

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

When illness strikes two people who are polar opposites, life and death bring them together in surprising ways....

#4
The Killing of a Sacred Deer

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

2017★ 7.0

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

Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existen...

#5
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

2017★ 6.4

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

An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s....

#6
Red Dust

Red Dust

2004★ 5.8

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

Sarah Barcant, a lawyer in New York City who grew up in South Africa, returns to her childhood dwelling place to intercede for Alex Mpondo, a Black South African politician who was...

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