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10 Best Movies Like Sarafina!

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

#1
Save the Last Dance

Save the Last Dance

2001★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sarafina! for fans of Music & Drama & Family. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After the death of her mother, Sara moves to the South Side of Chicago to live with her father and gets transferred to a majority-black school. Her life takes a turn for the better...

#2
Ruthless People

Ruthless People

1986★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sarafina! for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Sam Stone hates his wife Barbara so much that he wants her dead. He's ecstatic when she's taken by a duo of kidnappers who want $500,000 ransom in exchange for her life. Fully inte...

#3
Boys on the Side

Boys on the Side

1995★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sarafina! for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

After breaking up with her girlfriend, a nightclub singer, Jane, answers a personal ad from Robin, a real estate agent with AIDS, seeking a cross-country travel partner. On their j...

#4
The Substitute

The Substitute

1996★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sarafina! for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

When an inner-city Miami schoolteacher gets her knee broken after standing up to the school's gang leader, her mercenary combat specialist boyfriend goes undercover as a substitute...

#5
The Color of Friendship

The Color of Friendship

2000★ 6.7

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

Mahree Bok lives on a farm in South Africa. Her father is a policeman who cannot hide his joy when activist Steve Biko is caught by the South African authorities. Piper Dellums is ...

#6
Cooley High

Cooley High

1975★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sarafina! for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

In the mid-1960s, a group of high school friends who live on the Near North Side of Chicago enjoy life to the fullest...parties, hanging out, meeting new friends. Then life changes...