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10 Best Movies Like Escape Home

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

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#1
Hellion

Hellion

2014★ 5.9

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

When motocross and heavy metal obsessed, 13-year-old Jacob's delinquent behavior forces CPS to place his little brother Wes with his aunt, Jacob and his emotionally absent father m...

#2
Skin

Skin

2009★ 6.4

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

Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era....

#3
Luce

Luce

2019★ 6.4

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

A star athlete and top student, Luce's idealized image is challenged by one of his teachers when his unsettling views on political violence come to light, putting a strain on famil...

#4
Little Boy Blue

Little Boy Blue

1997★ 6.1

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

Living in rural Texas is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that's left him impotent; a compliant wife and a son of about 20, two small sons who...

#5
I Am David

I Am David

2003★ 6.9

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

A 12-year-old boy manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own, through sheer will and determination. All he has in his possession is a loaf of bread, a letter to deli...

#6
Palmer

Palmer

2021★ 8.1

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

After 12 years in prison, former high school football star Eddie Palmer returns home to put his life back together—and forms an unlikely bond with Sam, an outcast boy from a troubl...

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