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10 Best Movies Like The Southern Cross

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

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#1
The Daughter

The Daughter

2021★ 5.9

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

Irene is a fifteen-year-old who lives in a center for juvenile offenders. She just got pregnant and is determined to turn her life around with the help of Javier, an educator at th...

#2
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Southern Cross 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....

#3
The 7th Day

The 7th Day

2004★ 6.6

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

Isabel Jimenez is a teenager witnessing a horrible feud between her own family and the Fuentes family, a feud involving broken hearts, property disputes and a mysterious fire that ...

#4
Post Tenebras Lux

Post Tenebras Lux

2012★ 6.1

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

Juan and his urban family live in the Mexican countryside, where they enjoy and suffer a world apart. And nobody knows if these two worlds are complimentary or if they strive to el...

#5
The Padre

The Padre

2018★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Southern Cross 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-...

#6
The King of Havana

The King of Havana

2015★ 6.9

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

Recently escaped from reformatory, Reinaldo struggles to get by in the streets of Havana in the late 90s, one of the worst decades for Cuban society. Hopes, disillusionment, rum, g...

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