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10 Best Movies Like Ugly

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

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#1
A Question of Faith

A Question of Faith

2017★ 7.3

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

When Tragedy Strikes three Families, their Destiny forces them on a coverging path and mercy as the challenges of their fate could also resurrect their beliefs...

#2
Goodbye June

Goodbye June

2025★ 6.7

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

Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season....

#3
Bastard Out of Carolina

Bastard Out of Carolina

1996★ 7.2

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

A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer a...

#4
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

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

#5
Helen

Helen

2009★ 6.5

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

On the outside, Helen has it all – a loving family and a successful career – but when her suppressed mental illness resurfaces, the world crumbles around her. Crippled by depressio...

#6
Skin

Skin

2009★ 6.4

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

Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era....

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