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10 Best Movies Like Local Color

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

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#1
The Unforgivable

The Unforgivable

2021★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Local Color 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....

#2
The Boys in the Band

The Boys in the Band

2020★ 6.8

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

At a birthday party in 1968 New York, a surprise guest and a drunken game leave seven gay friends reckoning with unspoken feelings and buried truths....

#3
If There Be Thorns

If There Be Thorns

2015★ 5.8

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

Christopher and Cathy Dollanganger live together as man and wife with Cathy's two sons who are unaware of the incestuous nature of their parents' relationship. But when a mysteriou...

#4
The Krays

The Krays

1990★ 6.1

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

Twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray are raised in east London, under the influence of their hateful but doting mother Violet. As they grow up, Ronnie's violent nature takes over, and Regg...

#5
My Brother the Devil

My Brother the Devil

2012★ 6.4

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

Fourteen-year-old Mo is a lonely, sensitive boy whose hunger for the rant and banter of buddies makes him prone to tread dangerous territories. He idolizes his handsome older broth...

#6
Above the Rim

Above the Rim

1994★ 7.1

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

Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now empl...

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