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10 Best Movies Like Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

If you loved Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

#1
Tully

Tully

2018★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Marlo, a mother of three, including a newborn, is gifted a night nanny by her brother. Hesitant at first, she quickly forms a bond with the thoughtful, surprising, and sometimes ch...

#2
I Am Not Your Negro

I Am Not Your Negro

2017★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United States....

#3
Pray for Rain

Pray for Rain

2017★ 5.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When Emma Gardner, a whip smart NYC reporter learns of her father's untimely death, she returns to her home town to find that the idyllic farming community of her childhood has bee...

#4
Captain Fantastic

Captain Fantastic

2016★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to leave his paradise and enter...

#5
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....

#6
Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

2023★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II....