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10 Best Movies Like Sonny Come Home

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

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#1
Pickpocket

Pickpocket

1997★ 7.2

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

A small town pickpocket whose friends have moved on to higher trades finds himself bitter and unable to adapt....

#2
Imperial Dreams

Imperial Dreams

2014★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sonny Come Home 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...

#3
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

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

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of gettin...

#4
Siberian Education

Siberian Education

2013★ 6.8

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

The story of a gang of children growing up in a community of banished criminals, in a forgotten corner of the former Soviet Union. This community rejects the world outside. The onl...

#5
El Chicano

El Chicano

2019★ 6.6

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

A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law....

#6
The Safety of Objects

The Safety of Objects

2002★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sonny Come Home 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...

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