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10 Best Movies Like Florence

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

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#1
Bastard Out of Carolina

Bastard Out of Carolina

1996★ 7.2

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

A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer a...

#2
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

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

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of gettin...

#3
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Florence 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
Helen

Helen

2009★ 6.5

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

On the outside, Helen has it all – a loving family and a successful career – but when her suppressed mental illness resurfaces, the world crumbles around her. Crippled by depressio...

#5
The Safety of Objects

The Safety of Objects

2002★ 6.5

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

#6
Strange Weather

Strange Weather

2016★ 5.8

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

Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea....

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