
10 Best Movies Like The Release
If you loved The Release, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Hardball
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Release for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of gettin...

Helen
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Release for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
On the outside, Helen has it all – a loving family and a successful career – but when her suppressed mental illness resurfaces, the world crumbles around her. Crippled by depressio...

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

Come Sunday
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Release 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....

The Cut
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Release for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A retired boxer intends to return to the ring for one last shot at the title, but first he must make the weight. Holed up in a room in Las Vegas with an unscrupulous trainer, he em...

Home Run
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Release for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A pro ball player with a substance abuse problem is forced into rehab in his hometown, finding new hope when he gets honest about his checkered past, and takes on coaching duties f...