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10 Best Movies Like Thanks for the Fire

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

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#1
Sundays

Sundays

2025★ 7.1

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

17-year-old Ainara is a student at a Catholic secondary school, and is about to take her final year exams and choose her future university course. To everyone’s surprise, this bril...

#2
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Thanks for the Fire 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...

#3
Farming

Farming

2018★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Thanks for the Fire 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...

#4
The Miracle of Marcelino

The Miracle of Marcelino

1955★ 7.4

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

Left on the doorstep of a monastery as an infant, Marcelino was raised by the monks. He was well-cared for but lonely and missed having a mother. One day he found a special friend ...

#5
The King of Havana

The King of Havana

2015★ 6.9

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

Recently escaped from reformatory, Reinaldo struggles to get by in the streets of Havana in the late 90s, one of the worst decades for Cuban society. Hopes, disillusionment, rum, g...

#6
The Beautiful Country

The Beautiful Country

2004★ 5.9

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

After reuniting with his mother in Ho Chi Minh City, a family tragedy causes Binh to flee from Viet Nam to America. Landing in New York, Binh begins a road trip to Texas, where his...

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