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10 Best Movies Like Buried Child

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

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#1
National Theatre Live: Hamlet

National Theatre Live: Hamlet

2015★ 7.5

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

As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to avenge his father's death but paralyzed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages against the impossibility of his pr...

#2
God's Pocket

God's Pocket

2014★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Buried Child 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....

#3
Home Run

Home Run

2013★ 6.2

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

A pro ball player with a substance abuse problem is forced into rehab in his hometown, finding new hope when he gets honest about his checkered past, and takes on coaching duties f...

#4
That Evening Sun

That Evening Sun

2009★ 6.7

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

An aging Tennessee farmer returns to his homestead and must confront a family betrayal, the reappearance of an old enemy, and the loss of his farm....

#5
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Buried Child 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
Hamlet

Hamlet

1948★ 7.4

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

Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy. Ol...

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