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10 Best Movies Like Excuse

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

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#1
The Padre

The Padre

2018★ 5.9

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

American retired Judge Randall Nemes and his hired gun, Gaspar, track down a con man posing as a priest in a small Colombian town only to be thrown off-course by a scrappy 16-year-...

#2
What Maisie Knew

What Maisie Knew

2013★ 7.1

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

In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle....

#3
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#4
Girl in the Box

Girl in the Box

2016★ 6.7

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

The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as ...

#5
Lucca's World

Lucca's World

2025★ 7.3

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

Determined to help her son, who has cerebral palsy, Bárbara takes her family to India for an experimental treatment....

#6
Skin

Skin

2009★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Excuse 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....

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