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10 Best Movies Like Personal Affairs

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

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#1
Sand Storm

Sand Storm

2016★ 6.1

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

A Bedouin village in Northern Israel. When Jalila's husband marries a second woman, Jalila and her daughter's world is shattered, and the women are torn between their commitment to...

#2
Holy Lands

Holy Lands

2019★ 6.1

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

When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks his family and his new neighbours...

#3
Bastard Out of Carolina

Bastard Out of Carolina

1996★ 7.2

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

A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer a...

#4
Sergio

Sergio

2020★ 6.6

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

A sweeping drama set in the chaotic aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq, where the life of top UN diplomat Brazilian Sérgio Vieira de Mello hangs in the balance during the most tr...

#5
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#6
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

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

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell....

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