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10 Best Movies Like The Unburdening

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

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#1
The Truth About Emanuel

The Truth About Emanuel

2013★ 6.0

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

A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother....

#2
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

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

#3
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

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

#4
Chaos

Chaos

2001★ 6.4

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

A bourgeois couple, modern yet conventional. One night by accident, a young prostitute barges into their lives. Hounded down, beaten up, threatened, she will continue to struggle, ...

#5
My Little Princess

My Little Princess

2011★ 6.5

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

Young Violetta and her mother Hannah are a peculiar couple. Ten-year-old Violetta lives a quiet life with her grandmother, while her mother Hannah is an unpredictable photographer ...

#6
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

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

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site ...

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