10 Best Movies Like Just Plain Folks
If you loved Just Plain Folks, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Won't Back Down
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Just Plain Folks for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken...

Girl in the Box
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Just Plain Folks for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as ...

The Safety of Objects
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Just Plain Folks 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...

The Unforgivable
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Just Plain Folks for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past....

The Padre
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Just Plain Folks for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
American retired Judge Randall Nemes and his hired gun, Gaspar, track down a con man posing as a priest in a small Colombian town only to be thrown off-course by a scrappy 16-year-...

Imperial Dreams
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Just Plain Folks for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A 21-year-old reformed gangster's devotion to his family and his future is put to the test when he is released from prison and returns to his old stomping grounds in Watts, Los Ang...