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10 Best Movies Like A Place We Call Reality

If you loved A Place We Call Reality, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
El Chicano

El Chicano

2019★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Place We Call Reality 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....

#2
The Girl in the Book

The Girl in the Book

2015★ 5.8

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

The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present....

#3
Imperial Dreams

Imperial Dreams

2014★ 6.6

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

A 21-year-old reformed gangster's devotion to his family and his future is put to the test when he is released from prison and returns to his old stomping grounds in Watts, Los Ang...

#4
The Experiment

The Experiment

2010★ 6.4

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

20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control....

#5
The Safety of Objects

The Safety of Objects

2002★ 6.5

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

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, an...

#6
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

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

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site ...

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