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10 Best Movies Like Unshackled

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

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#1
Skin

Skin

2009★ 6.4

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

#2
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Unshackled 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
Farming

Farming

2018★ 6.2

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

#4
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020★ 6.2

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

#5
Sergio

Sergio

2020★ 6.6

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

#6
Breathe

Breathe

2017★ 7.4

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

Based on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralyzed....

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