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10 Best Movies Like Katas

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

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#1
Little Boy Blue

Little Boy Blue

1997★ 6.1

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

Living in rural Texas is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that's left him impotent; a compliant wife and a son of about 20, two small sons who...

#2
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

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

#3
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

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

#4
Inside I'm Dancing

Inside I'm Dancing

2004★ 7.4

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

Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the formidable Eileen. His life is transformed wh...

#5
Embattled

Embattled

2020★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Katas for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

The eldest son of a ruthlessly tough MMA champion must fight his way out of the abusive cycle his father has continued....

#6
God's Pocket

God's Pocket

2014★ 5.8

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

A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist and the young man's mother complicate matters....

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