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10 Best Movies Like The Cotton King

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

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#1
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Cotton King 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....

#2
The River

The River

1984★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Cotton King 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...

#3
The Hummingbird Project

The Hummingbird Project

2019★ 6.2

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

A pair of high-frequency traders go up against their old boss in an effort to make millions in a fiber-optic cable deal....

#4
Imperial Dreams

Imperial Dreams

2014★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Cotton King 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
Gracie

Gracie

2007★ 6.2

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

A teenager faces an uphill battle when she fights to give women the opportunity to play competitive soccer....

#6
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Cotton King 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...

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