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10 Best Movies Like Ants' Nest

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

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#1
The Magdalene Sisters

The Magdalene Sisters

2002★ 7.4

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

Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum....

#2
The Song of Bernadette

The Song of Bernadette

1943★ 7.1

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

In 1858 Lourdes, France, adolescent peasant Bernadette has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the Massabielle grotto - the townspeople assume this lady to be the Virgin Mary. Pompou...

#3
Doubt

Doubt

2008★ 7.2

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

In 1964 Bronx, two Catholic school nuns question the new priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled African-American student....

#4
Black Narcissus

Black Narcissus

1947★ 7.5

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

A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climate in the region is hostile and the nuns are housed in an odd old palace. They wo...

#5
Cracks

Cracks

2009★ 6.6

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

Jealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student....

#6
Novitiate

Novitiate

2017★ 6.4

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

In the early 1960s, during the Vatican II era, a young woman training to become a nun struggles with issues of faith, sexuality and the changing church....

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