Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 16, 2026

10 Best Movies Like In the Beginning

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

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#1
Salomé

Salomé

2013★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to In the Beginning 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...

#2
Skin

Skin

2009★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to In the Beginning 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
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

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

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell....

#4
Fatima

Fatima

2020★ 7.2

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

In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who tells them that only prayer and...

#5
The Visit

The Visit

1964★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to In the Beginning 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...

#6
I Am Not a Witch

I Am Not a Witch

2017★ 6.7

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

Convicted of witchcraft, 8-year-old Shula is brought to live in a penal colony where witches do hard labour in service of the government....

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