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10 Best Movies Like High Yellow

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

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#1
Cass

Cass

2008★ 5.9

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

The incredible true story of how an orphaned Jamaican baby, adopted by an elderly white couple and brought up in an all white area of London, became one of the most feared and resp...

#2
Skin

Skin

2009★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to High Yellow 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
Disgrace

Disgrace

2008★ 6.2

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

Disgrace is the story of a South African professor of English who loses everything: his reputation, his job, his peace of mind, his good looks, his dreams of artistic success, and ...

#4
The Lords of Discipline

The Lords of Discipline

1983★ 6.6

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

Will arrives for his last year at Military Academy, in the Deep South USA, in the 1960's. A black student, Pearce, has been accepted, for the first time and Will is asked to keep a...

#5
The Joy Luck Club

The Joy Luck Club

1993★ 7.1

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

Through a series of flashbacks, four Chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China explore their pasts....

#6
Little Lord Fauntleroy

Little Lord Fauntleroy

1980★ 7.4

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

Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disown...

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