Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 11, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Jafar

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

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#1
Disgrace

Disgrace

2008★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Jafar 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 ...

#2
A Dry White Season

A Dry White Season

1989★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Jafar 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....

#3
The Safety of Objects

The Safety of Objects

2002★ 6.5

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

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, an...

#4
Holy Lands

Holy Lands

2019★ 6.1

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

When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks his family and his new neighbours...

#5
Skin

Skin

2009★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Jafar 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....

#6
The Trials of Cate McCall

The Trials of Cate McCall

2013★ 6.4

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

In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicte...

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