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10 Best Movies Like Forbidden to Forbid

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

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#1
Casa Grande

Casa Grande

2014★ 6.8

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

As a privileged teenager living in an affluent suburb of Rio de Janeiro, Jean has little to worry about beyond games, grades and girls. But as his overbearing father drags the fami...

#2
Mango Yellow

Mango Yellow

2002★ 6.6

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

The lives of a macho butcher, his wife, a lonely waitress, a sadist and a flophouse manager intersect in Recife, Brazil....

#3
Adopt a Highway

Adopt a Highway

2019★ 6.7

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

Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a 3rd strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn’t...

#4
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Forbidden to Forbid 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...

#5
Sergio

Sergio

2020★ 6.6

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

A sweeping drama set in the chaotic aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq, where the life of top UN diplomat Brazilian Sérgio Vieira de Mello hangs in the balance during the most tr...

#6
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

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

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site ...

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