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10 Best Movies Like Sling Blade

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

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#1
Elmer Gantry

Elmer Gantry

1960★ 7.3

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

A charismatic charlatan begins a business — and eventually romantic — relationship with a roadside evangelist to sell religion to 1920s America. Based on Sinclair Lewis' novel of t...

#2
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

1958★ 7.6

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

An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous acc...

#3
God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness

God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness

2018★ 6.6

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

Pastor Dave responds to the unimaginable tragedy of having his church, located on the grounds of the local university, burned down....

#4
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sling Blade 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....

#5
Rain Man

Rain Man

1988★ 7.8

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

When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and th...

#6
The River

The River

1984★ 6.4

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

Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer a...

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