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10 Best Movies Like This Was America

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

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#1
Topside

Topside

2022★ 6.7

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

Deep in the underbelly of New York City, a five year-old girl and her mother live among a community that has claimed the abandoned subway tunnels as their home. After a sudden poli...

#2
The Escapist

The Escapist

2008★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Was America for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Frank Perry is an institutionalized convict twelve years into a life sentence without parole. When his estranged daughter falls ill, he is determined to make peace with her before ...

#3
Mindwalk

Mindwalk

1991★ 6.9

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

On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Jack, a failed presidential candidate, Tom, a poet and Sonia, a physicist, engage in an intellectual conversation about politics, philoso...

#4
Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon

Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon

2022★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Was America for fans of Mystery. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A young woman with psychokinetic powers breaks out of a Louisiana asylum and makes her way to New Orleans, where she falls into the city’s netherworld of misfits and miscreants....

#5
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Was America 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
Alex of Venice

Alex of Venice

2015★ 5.9

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

After her stay-at-home husband leaves her, a workaholic lawyer finds that she is not completely up to the tasks of caring for her young son, ailing father and household all by hers...

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