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10 Best Movies Like Things That Hang from Trees

If you loved Things That Hang from Trees, 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 Things That Hang from Trees 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
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Things That Hang from Trees for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....

#3
A Dry White Season

A Dry White Season

1989★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Things That Hang from Trees for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody....

#4
Coldwater

Coldwater

2013★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Things That Hang from Trees for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A teenage boy is sent to a juvenile reform facility in the wilderness. As we learn about the tragic events that sent him there, his struggle becomes one for survival with the inmat...

#5
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Things That Hang from Trees 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....

#6
God's Pocket

God's Pocket

2014★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Things That Hang from Trees for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist and the young man's mother complicate matters....

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