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10 Best Movies Like St. John in Exile

If you loved St. John in Exile, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Cardboard Boxer

Cardboard Boxer

2016★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to St. John in Exile for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl....

#2
Vanya on 42nd Street

Vanya on 42nd Street

1994★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to St. John in Exile for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An uninterrupted rehearsal of Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya' plays out by a company of actors. The setting: their run-down theater with an unusable stage and crumbling ceiling. The play i...

#3
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to St. John in Exile 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....

#4
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

1996★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to St. John in Exile for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devot...

#5
Mindwalk

Mindwalk

1991★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to St. John in Exile for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Jack, a failed presidential candidate, Tom, a poet and Sonia, a physicist, engage in an intellectual conversation about politics, philoso...

#6
Nothing Personal

Nothing Personal

2009★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to St. John in Exile for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Alone in her empty flat, from her window Anne observes the people passing by who nervously snatch up the personal belongings and pieces of furniture she has put out on the pavement...

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