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10 Best Movies Like Soul Man

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

#1
Down and Out in Beverly Hills

Down and Out in Beverly Hills

1986★ 5.9

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

Beverly Hills couple Barbara and Dave Whiteman find their lives altered by the arrival of a vagrant who tries to drown himself in their swimming pool....

#2
Quest for Fire

Quest for Fire

1981★ 7.0

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

In the prehistoric world, a Cro-Magnon tribe depends on an ever-burning source of fire, which eventually extinguishes. Lacking the knowledge to start a new fire, the tribe sends th...

#3
Dolores Claiborne

Dolores Claiborne

1995★ 7.3

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

Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused...

#4
A Rage in Harlem

A Rage in Harlem

1991★ 5.4

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

A beautiful black gangster's moll flees to Harlem with a trunkload of gold after a shootout, unaware that the rest of the gang, and a few other unsavoury characters, are on her tra...

#5
Young Toscanini

Young Toscanini

1988★ 5.9

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

A fanciful biopic of legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini as a very young man....

#6
The Man I Love

The Man I Love

1997★ 6.3

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

This is a combination coming out and first love story. The swimmer and diver Lucard is interested in attractive Martin. The film follows the characters' coming out with all its dif...