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10 Best Movies Like Ill Gotten Gains

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

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#1
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ill Gotten Gains 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...

#2
Cesar Chavez

Cesar Chavez

2014★ 6.2

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

A biography of the civil-rights activist and labor organizer Cesar Chavez. Chronicling the birth of a modern American labour movement, Cesar Chavez tells the story of the famed ci...

#3
The Visit

The Visit

1964★ 7.2

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

Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a multi-m...

#4
A Dry White Season

A Dry White Season

1989★ 6.7

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

During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody....

#5
Sergio

Sergio

2020★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ill Gotten Gains 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
Farming

Farming

2018★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ill Gotten Gains 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...

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