
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.

Save the Last Dance
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...

Ruthless People
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...

Boys on the Side
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...

The Substitute
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...

The Color of Friendship
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 ...

Cooley High
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...