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10 Best Movies Like Long Journey Back

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

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#1
Girl Fight

Girl Fight

2011★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Long Journey Back for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Inspired by a true story, Girl Fight recounts the harrowing story of a 16-year-old, stellar high school student whose life spirals downward when her former friends conspire to uplo...

#2
Cheaters

Cheaters

2000★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Long Journey Back for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition....

#3
Girl in the Box

Girl in the Box

2016★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Long Journey Back for fans of Drama & TV Movie. 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 ...

#4
Heaven

Heaven

2019★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Long Journey Back for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Heaven Leigh Casteel, gifted and intelligent, is the eldest of five dirt-poor children struggling to survive in a mountain shack. As she endures neglect and abuse, Heaven discovers...

#5
American Son

American Son

2019★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Long Journey Back for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Time passes and tension mounts in a Florida police station as an estranged interracial couple awaits news of their missing teenage son....

#6
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Long Journey Back for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site ...

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