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10 Best Movies Like Bitter Orange

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

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#1
The Unforgivable

The Unforgivable

2021★ 7.4

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

A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past....

#2
The Trials of Cate McCall

The Trials of Cate McCall

2013★ 6.4

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

In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicte...

#3
The Safety of Objects

The Safety of Objects

2002★ 6.5

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

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, an...

#4
The Damned Don't Cry

The Damned Don't Cry

1950★ 7.0

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

Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob....

#5
Hounddog

Hounddog

2008★ 6.4

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

A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley....

#6
The Girl in the Book

The Girl in the Book

2015★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Bitter Orange 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....

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