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10 Best Movies Like Playing with Souls

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

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#1
The Beautiful Country

The Beautiful Country

2004★ 5.9

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

After reuniting with his mother in Ho Chi Minh City, a family tragedy causes Binh to flee from Viet Nam to America. Landing in New York, Binh begins a road trip to Texas, where his...

#2
God's Pocket

God's Pocket

2014★ 5.8

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

A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist and the young man's mother complicate matters....

#3
The Nest

The Nest

2020★ 6.1

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

Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of the...

#4
Imperial Dreams

Imperial Dreams

2014★ 6.6

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

A 21-year-old reformed gangster's devotion to his family and his future is put to the test when he is released from prison and returns to his old stomping grounds in Watts, Los Ang...

#5
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Playing with Souls 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
Farming

Farming

2018★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Playing with Souls 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...

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