Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 18, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Sure to Rise

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

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#1
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

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

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

#2
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sure to Rise 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....

#3
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#4
The Road Dance

The Road Dance

2022★ 6.6

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

A young girl lives in the Outer Hebrides in a small village in the years just before WWI. Isolated and hard by the shore, her life takes a dramatic change when a terrible tragedy b...

#5
Return

Return

2011★ 6.4

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

Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes....

#6
The Good Neighbor

The Good Neighbor

2022★ 6.5

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

A nightmarish evening unfolds for neighbors David and Robert when they accidentally hit a woman on her bike and flee the scene. While David is increasingly plagued by feelings of g...

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