10 Best Movies Like The American Surplus
If you loved The American Surplus, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Sergio
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The American Surplus for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A sweeping drama set in the chaotic aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq, where the life of top UN diplomat Brazilian Sérgio Vieira de Mello hangs in the balance during the most tr...

Little Boy Blue
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The American Surplus for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Living in rural Texas is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that's left him impotent; a compliant wife and a son of about 20, two small sons who...

The Girl in the Book
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The American Surplus for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present....

All Day and a Night
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The American Surplus 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....

Waiting for Anya
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The American Surplus for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain....

Skin
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The American Surplus for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era....