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10 Best Movies Like The Expropriation

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

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#1
Prayers for the Stolen

Prayers for the Stolen

2021★ 7.6

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

Ana and her two best friends, Maria and Paula, navigate life in their oppressive countryside village. Whilst their families struggle in the poppy fields harvesting opium, the girls...

#2
Post Tenebras Lux

Post Tenebras Lux

2012★ 6.1

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

Juan and his urban family live in the Mexican countryside, where they enjoy and suffer a world apart. And nobody knows if these two worlds are complimentary or if they strive to el...

#3
Farming

Farming

2018★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Expropriation 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 River

The River

1984★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Expropriation 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
Mindwalk

Mindwalk

1991★ 6.9

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

On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Jack, a failed presidential candidate, Tom, a poet and Sonia, a physicist, engage in an intellectual conversation about politics, philoso...

#6
The King of Havana

The King of Havana

2015★ 6.8

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

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