
10 Best Movies Like American Born
If you loved American Born, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

The Young One
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to American Born 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....

Bastard Out of Carolina
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to American Born for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer a...

Skin
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to American Born 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....

The Girl in the Book
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to American Born 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....

All Day and a Night
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to American Born for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....

Babylon
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to American Born 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...