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10 Best Movies Like Karen

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

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#1
Skin

Skin

2009★ 6.4

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

#2
Disgrace

Disgrace

2008★ 6.2

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

#3
Flash of Genius

Flash of Genius

2008★ 6.6

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

In this David vs. Goliath drama based on a true story, college professor Robert Kearns goes up against the giants of the auto industry when they fail to give him credit for inventi...

#4
Adú

Adú

2020★ 6.9

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

In a desperate attempt to reach Europe and crouched before an airstrip in Cameroon, a six-year-old boy and his older sister wait to sneak into the holds of an airplane. Not too far...

#5
Desert Flower

Desert Flower

2009★ 7.6

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

The autobiography of a Somalian nomad who was sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is now at the age of 38, the UN sp...

#6
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

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