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10 Best Movies Like Call It by Its Real Name

If you loved Call It by Its Real Name, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Rosa Parks Story

The Rosa Parks Story

2002★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Call It by Its Real Name for fans of Drama & History & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A seamstress recalls events leading to her act of peaceful defiance that prompted the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama....

#2
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

2017★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Call It by Its Real Name for fans of Drama & History & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s....

#3
Confirmation

Confirmation

2016★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Call It by Its Real Name for fans of Drama & History & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Judge Clarence Thomas' nomination to the United States' Supreme Court is called into question when former colleague, Anita Hill, testifies that he had sexually harassed her....

#4
Uprising

Uprising

2001★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Call It by Its Real Name for fans of Drama & History & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis....

#5
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

1996★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Call It by Its Real Name for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devot...

#6
The Scarlet and the Black

The Scarlet and the Black

1983★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Call It by Its Real Name for fans of Drama & History & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large th...

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