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10 Best Movies Like Build Thy House

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

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#1
Power

Power

1986★ 5.9

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

Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the country. When his long-time friend and client Ohio senator Sam Hastings decides to q...

#2
Adam

Adam

2020★ 6.4

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

A hard-living salesman becomes a quadriplegic after an accident....

#3
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

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

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of gettin...

#4
Cardboard Boxer

Cardboard Boxer

2016★ 6.3

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

Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl....

#5
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Build Thy House 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...

#6
Hereafter

Hereafter

2010★ 6.1

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

Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways....

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