
10 Best Movies Like I Was a Simple Man
If you loved I Was a Simple Man, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

The Young One
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Was a Simple Man for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

That Evening Sun
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Was a Simple Man for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
An aging Tennessee farmer returns to his homestead and must confront a family betrayal, the reappearance of an old enemy, and the loss of his farm....

Farming
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Was a Simple Man for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Ins...

The Girl in the Book
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Was a Simple Man for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present....

The Last Bus
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Was a Simple Man for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Widower Tom, on the recent passing of his wife Mary, uses his free bus pass to travel the length of Britain from John O'Groats in Caithness to Land's End in Cornwall, their shared ...

Salomé
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Was a Simple Man for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his k...