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10 Best Movies Like Paper Angels

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

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#1
The Christmas Shoes

The Christmas Shoes

2002★ 6.9

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

Two separate stories mesh - in the first, a young music teacher, Maggie Andrews, begins dying of a heart condition and her son Nathan tries to get a pair of Christmas shoes for her...

#2
TalhotBlond

TalhotBlond

2012★ 6.3

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

Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately lead...

#3
American Son

American Son

2019★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Paper Angels 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....

#4
A Bramble House Christmas

A Bramble House Christmas

2017★ 6.4

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

While settling his father’s estate, Finn Conrad becomes suspicious as to why the man left a nurse $100,000. His dad knew her for less than two months before he died. Just before Ch...

#5
Girl in the Box

Girl in the Box

2016★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Paper Angels 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 ...

#6
Normal

Normal

2003★ 6.7

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

A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation....

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