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10 Best Movies Like August Story

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

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#1
What Maisie Knew

What Maisie Knew

2013★ 7.1

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

In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle....

#2
Girl in the Box

Girl in the Box

2016★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to August Story 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
Skin

Skin

2009★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to August Story 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....

#4
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to August Story 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
Still Human

Still Human

2018★ 7.8

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

A Hong Kong man with a disability hires a Filipino migrant worker to care for him. As they spend more time together through different seasons, they start learning about themselves....

#6
El Chicano

El Chicano

2019★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to August Story 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....

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