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10 Best Movies Like The Scarlet Spear

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

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#1
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

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

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

#2
Salomé

Salomé

2013★ 6.2

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

After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his k...

#3
Farming

Farming

2018★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Scarlet Spear 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 Padre

The Padre

2018★ 5.9

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

American retired Judge Randall Nemes and his hired gun, Gaspar, track down a con man posing as a priest in a small Colombian town only to be thrown off-course by a scrappy 16-year-...

#5
El Chicano

El Chicano

2019★ 6.6

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

A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law....

#6
Brotherly Love

Brotherly Love

2015★ 7.0

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

West Philadelphia basketball star Sergio Taylor deals with the pressures of fame while his brother and sister have their own issues with ambition....

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