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10 Best Movies Like The Color Purple

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

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#1
Straight Outta Compton

Straight Outta Compton

2015★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Color Purple for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful w...

#2
Acrimony

Acrimony

2018★ 6.8

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

Faithful wife Melinda, who is tired of standing by her devious husband Robert, is enraged when it becomes clear she has been betrayed. That's when she lost it, and now she cannot l...

#3
The Skeleton Twins

The Skeleton Twins

2014★ 6.7

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

Estranged twins Maggie and Milo coincidentally cheat death on the same day, prompting them to reunite and confront the reasons their lives went so wrong. As the twins' reunion rein...

#4
Nocturnal Animals

Nocturnal Animals

2016★ 7.4

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

Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional...

#5
American History X

American History X

1998★ 8.3

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

Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to priso...

#6
He Got Game

He Got Game

1998★ 6.8

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

A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter prison sentence....

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