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10 Best Movies Like Swades

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

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2009★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Swades for fans of Sci-Fi. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

In the 22nd century, a paraplegic Marine is dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission, but becomes torn between following orders and protecting an alien civilization....

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Beasts of the Southern Wild

Beasts of the Southern Wild

2012★ 6.8

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

Hushpuppy, an intrepid six-year-old girl, lives with her father, Wink, in 'the Bathtub', a southern Delta community at the edge of the world. Wink’s tough love prepares her for the...

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Flicka

Flicka

2006★ 6.9

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

Katy McLaughlin desires to work on her family's mountainside horse ranch, although her father insists she finish boarding school. Katy finds a mustang in the hills near her ranch. ...

#4
Crooked Arrows

Crooked Arrows

2012★ 6.2

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

A native-American lacrosse team makes its way through a prep school league tournament....

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Hidden Figures

Hidden Figures

2016★ 8.0

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

The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest o...

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Flaming Star

Flaming Star

1960★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Swades for fans of Western. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Sam Burton's second wife is a Kiowa, and their son is therefore born mixed-race. When a struggle starts between the whites and the native Kiowas, the Burton family is split between...

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