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10 Best Movies Like This Is Why We Fight

If you loved This Is Why We Fight, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Jonathan

Jonathan

2018★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Is Why We Fight for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Jonathan is a young man with a strange condition that only his brother understands. But when he begins to yearn for a different life, their unique bond becomes increasingly tested...

#2
Iron Jawed Angels

Iron Jawed Angels

2004★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Is Why We Fight for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote....

#3
The Congress

The Congress

2013★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Is Why We Fight for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider....

#4
Bastard Out of Carolina

Bastard Out of Carolina

1996★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Is Why We Fight for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer a...

#5
Hellion

Hellion

2014★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Is Why We Fight for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When motocross and heavy metal obsessed, 13-year-old Jacob's delinquent behavior forces CPS to place his little brother Wes with his aunt, Jacob and his emotionally absent father m...

#6
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Is Why We Fight 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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