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10 Best Movies Like Backdoor

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

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#1
The Dust of Time

The Dust of Time

2008★ 6.3

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

To trace the fading past of his parents, a grizzled Greek-American filmmaker decides to shoot a movie. By recounting the painful efforts of his mother to reunite with his musician ...

#2
Salomé

Salomé

2013★ 6.2

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

After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his k...

#3
The Girl in the Book

The Girl in the Book

2015★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Backdoor 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....

#4
Tigertail

Tigertail

2020★ 6.7

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

A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter....

#5
A Dry White Season

A Dry White Season

1989★ 6.7

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

During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody....

#6
God's Pocket

God's Pocket

2014★ 5.8

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

A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist and the young man's mother complicate matters....

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