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10 Best Movies Like Despite Everything

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

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#1
Love Me Instead

Love Me Instead

2021★ 6.4

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

Accompanied by a ward, a prisoner travels to his hometown to reconnect with his daughter and make amends, but a tragic truth mars his journey....

#2
Running Wild

Running Wild

2017★ 6.0

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

Stella Davis is a widow who saves her ranch by working with convicts to rehabilitate a herd of wild horses that wandered on to her property. Stella must fight prejudice, greed, bur...

#3
The Mustang

The Mustang

2019★ 6.9

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

While participating in a rehabilitation program training wild mustangs, a convict at first struggles to connect with the horses and his fellow inmates, but he learns to confront hi...

#4
A Score to Settle

A Score to Settle

2019★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Despite Everything for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A former mob enforcer who is released from prison after serving 22 years for a crime he didn't commit sets out on a path for revenge against the people who wronged him....

#5
He Got Game

He Got Game

1998★ 6.8

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

A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter prison sentence....

#6
Black or White

Black or White

2015★ 6.8

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

A grieving widower is drawn into a custody battle over his granddaughter, whom he helped raise her entire life....

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