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10 Best Movies Like The Best Actor

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

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#1
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Best Actor 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...

#2
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Best Actor 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....

#3
Adam

Adam

2020★ 6.4

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

A hard-living salesman becomes a quadriplegic after an accident....

#4
The River

The River

1984★ 6.4

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

Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer a...

#5
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Best Actor 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....

#6
Above the Rim

Above the Rim

1994★ 7.1

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

Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now empl...

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