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10 Best Movies Like A Burning Man

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

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#1
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

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

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

#2
The Beautiful Country

The Beautiful Country

2004★ 5.9

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

After reuniting with his mother in Ho Chi Minh City, a family tragedy causes Binh to flee from Viet Nam to America. Landing in New York, Binh begins a road trip to Texas, where his...

#3
Little Boy Blue

Little Boy Blue

1997★ 6.1

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

Living in rural Texas is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that's left him impotent; a compliant wife and a son of about 20, two small sons who...

#4
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Burning Man 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
American Son

American Son

2019★ 6.1

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

Time passes and tension mounts in a Florida police station as an estranged interracial couple awaits news of their missing teenage son....

#6
God's Pocket

God's Pocket

2014★ 5.8

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

A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist and the young man's mother complicate matters....

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