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10 Best Movies Like America for Me

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

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#1
Van Gogh: Painted with Words

Van Gogh: Painted with Words

2010★ 7.3

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

A drama-documentary presented by Alan Yentob, with Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead role. Every word spoken by the actors in this film is sourced from the letters that Van Gogh sen...

#2
Girl in the Box

Girl in the Box

2016★ 6.7

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

The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as ...

#3
Iron Jawed Angels

Iron Jawed Angels

2004★ 6.8

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

Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote....

#4
TalhotBlond

TalhotBlond

2012★ 6.3

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

Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately lead...

#5
Inherit the Wind

Inherit the Wind

1999★ 6.3

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

Two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution....

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Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to America for Me 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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