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10 Best Movies Like Cry, the Beloved Country

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

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#1
Disgrace

Disgrace

2008★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cry, the Beloved Country for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Disgrace is the story of a South African professor of English who loses everything: his reputation, his job, his peace of mind, his good looks, his dreams of artistic success, and ...

#2
Escape from Pretoria

Escape from Pretoria

2020★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cry, the Beloved Country for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion to escape ...

#3
Trees of Peace

Trees of Peace

2021★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cry, the Beloved Country for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Four women from different backgrounds forge an unbreakable sisterhood while trapped and in hiding during the genocide in Rwanda....

#4
Shepherds and Butchers

Shepherds and Butchers

2017★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cry, the Beloved Country for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed....

#5
The Birth of a Nation

The Birth of a Nation

2016★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cry, the Beloved Country for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Nat Turner, a former slave in America, leads a liberation movement in 1831 to free African-Americans in Virginia that results in a violent retaliation from whites....

#6
Sometimes in April

Sometimes in April

2005★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cry, the Beloved Country for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Two brothers are divided by marriage and fate during the 100 horrifying days of the 1994 Rwandan genocide....

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