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10 Best Movies Like Tallessa

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

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#1
Farming

Farming

2018‱★ 6.2

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

Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Ins...

#2
Naked Harbour

Naked Harbour

2012‱★ 5.8

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

In a multicultural suburb of Helsinki, a bullied Russian immigrant decides to fight back, a young woman dreams of superstardom at any cost, and a junkie couple schemes their way ou...

#3
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020‱★ 6.2

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

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....

#4
Imperial Dreams

Imperial Dreams

2014‱★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Tallessa 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...

#5
Iron Jawed Angels

Iron Jawed Angels

2004‱★ 6.8

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

Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote....

#6
Hardball

Hardball

2001‱★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Tallessa 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...

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