10 Best Movies Like My People
If you loved My People, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Farming
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My People for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Ins...

The Young One
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My People for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

Girl in the Box
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My People for fans of Drama. 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 ...

That Evening Sun
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My People for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
An aging Tennessee farmer returns to his homestead and must confront a family betrayal, the reappearance of an old enemy, and the loss of his farm....

Skin
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My People for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era....

40 Acres
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My People for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
Hailey Freeman and her family are the last descendants of African American farmers who settled in rural Canada after the Civil War. In a famine-decimated near future, they now stru...