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10 Best Movies Like Common Ground

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

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#1
Iron Jawed Angels

Iron Jawed Angels

2004★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Common Ground for fans of TV Movie & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote....

#2
The Safety of Objects

The Safety of Objects

2002★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Common Ground 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...

#3
A Dry White Season

A Dry White Season

1989★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Common Ground 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....

#4
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

1999★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Common Ground for fans of TV Movie & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An acclaimed stage performer, Dorothy still struggled with the challenge of her color, in a time that wouldn't let some stars in by the front door. Yet against the odds she beat ou...

#5
My Brother the Devil

My Brother the Devil

2012★ 6.4

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

Fourteen-year-old Mo is a lonely, sensitive boy whose hunger for the rant and banter of buddies makes him prone to tread dangerous territories. He idolizes his handsome older broth...

#6
Lucky Them

Lucky Them

2013★ 6.0

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

More interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug has one last chance to prove her value to her magazine’s editor: a no-st...

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