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10 Best Movies Like We Are Griots

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

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#1
Sign of the Lion

Sign of the Lion

1962★ 7.0

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

An American in Paris lives by sponging off his working friends, and throws a party using borrowed money when his rich American aunt dies, believing firmly in his horoscope....

#2
Skin

Skin

2009★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to We Are Griots 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....

#3
A Secret

A Secret

2007★ 6.4

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

In 1953, a sensitive French boy finds out from a neighbor that his family's Jewish. François Grimbert becomes a physician, and gradually peels the layers of his buried family histo...

#4
El Chicano

El Chicano

2019★ 6.6

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

A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law....

#5
Mindwalk

Mindwalk

1991★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to We Are Griots 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...

#6
The Kick of Sirocco

The Kick of Sirocco

1979★ 6.0

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

A shady Parisian tries to take advantage of a family of French-descended Algerians forced to move to France....

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