Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 10, 2026

10 Best Movies Like The South

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

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#1
The Clan

The Clan

2015★ 6.8

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

In Argentina, between 1982 and 1985, the Puccios, a well-established family of San Isidro, an upper-class suburb of Buenos Aires, kidnap several people and hold them as hostages fo...

#2
Argentina 1985

Argentina 1985

2022★ 7.8

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

In the 1980s, a team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship in a battle against odds and a race against time....

#3
Pacto de Fuga

Pacto de Fuga

2020★ 7.5

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

During the last years of Pinochet's military regime, a group of militants from the "Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front" plan a prison break of political prisoners, through a tunnel ...

#4
Land of the Blind

Land of the Blind

2006★ 5.8

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

A soldier recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner attempting to overthrow their country's authoritarian government....

#5
Prison 77

Prison 77

2022★ 7.1

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

Modelo Prison. Barcelona, 1977. A young accountant, awaiting trial for embezzlement with a possible 20 years sentence, joins a group of prisoners demanding amnesty....

#6
Bronson

Bronson

2009★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The South for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A young man who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending 30 years in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted ...

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