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10 Best Movies Like The Neon Bible

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

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#1
The Color Purple

The Color Purple

2023★ 7.0

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

A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to independence. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds extraordinary strength and h...

#2
The Best of Enemies

The Best of Enemies

2019★ 7.4

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

Centers on the unlikely relationship between Ann Atwater, an outspoken civil rights activist, and C.P. Ellis, a local Ku Klux Klan leader who reluctantly co-chaired a community sum...

#3
I Saw the Light

I Saw the Light

2016★ 6.2

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

Singer and songwriter Hank Williams rises to fame in the 1940s, but alcohol abuse and infidelity take a toll on his career and marriage to fellow musician Audrey Mae Williams....

#4
The Help

The Help

2011★ 8.2

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

Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid wh...

#5
Elmer Gantry

Elmer Gantry

1960★ 7.3

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

A charismatic charlatan begins a business — and eventually romantic — relationship with a roadside evangelist to sell religion to 1920s America. Based on Sinclair Lewis' novel of t...

#6
Honkytonk Man

Honkytonk Man

1982★ 6.4

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

During the Great Depression, a young boy leaves his family's Oklahoma farm to travel with his country musician uncle who is trying out for the Grand Ole Opry....

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