Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 09, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Sala

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

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#1
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sala 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...

#2
The Safety of Objects

The Safety of Objects

2002★ 6.5

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

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, an...

#3
Skin

Skin

2009★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sala 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....

#4
Imperial Dreams

Imperial Dreams

2014★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sala 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
A Dry White Season

A Dry White Season

1989★ 6.7

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

During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody....

#6
Farming

Farming

2018★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sala 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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