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10 Best Movies Like Wild Roots

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

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#1
The Dry

The Dry

2021★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Wild Roots for fans of Crime. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown to attend a tragic funeral. But his return opens a decades-old wound - the unsolved death of a teenage girl....

#2
Gigi

Gigi

1958★ 6.2

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

A home, a motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: the most eligible and most finicky bachelor in Paris offers them all to Gigi. But she, who's gone from girlish gawkishness to cul...

#3
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

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

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....

#4
The Godfather

The Godfather

1972★ 8.7

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

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attemp...

#5
Shutter Island

Shutter Island

2010★ 8.2

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

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by tro...

#6
Titanic

Titanic

1997★ 7.9

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

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and...