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10 Best Movies Like The Natural Son

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

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#1
Little Lord Fauntleroy

Little Lord Fauntleroy

1980★ 7.4

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

Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disown...

#2
A Dry White Season

A Dry White Season

1989★ 6.7

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

During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody....

#3
The Color of Friendship

The Color of Friendship

2000★ 6.7

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

Mahree Bok lives on a farm in South Africa. Her father is a policeman who cannot hide his joy when activist Steve Biko is caught by the South African authorities. Piper Dellums is ...

#4
The Safety of Objects

The Safety of Objects

2002★ 6.5

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

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, an...

#5
Normal

Normal

2003★ 6.7

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

A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation....

#6
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

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

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site ...

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