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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
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020★ 6.2

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

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....

#2
Cardboard Boxer

Cardboard Boxer

2016★ 6.3

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

Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl....

#3
A Dry White Season

A Dry White Season

1989★ 6.7

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

#4
The Lords of Discipline

The Lords of Discipline

1983★ 6.6

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

Will arrives for his last year at Military Academy, in the Deep South USA, in the 1960's. A black student, Pearce, has been accepted, for the first time and Will is asked to keep a...

#5
Hands of Stone

Hands of Stone

2016★ 6.6

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

The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives....

#6
Modigliani

Modigliani

2004★ 7.0

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

Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Modigliani, a Jew, h...

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