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10 Best Movies Like Twisted Roots

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

#1
The World of Apu

The World of Apu

1959★ 8.1

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

Apu, now a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer, is invited to join an old college friend on a trip up-country to a village wedding....

#2
Truth

Truth

2015★ 6.5

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

As a renowned producer and close associate of Dan Rather, Mary Mapes believes she’s broken the biggest story of the 2004 election: revelations of a sitting U.S. President’s militar...

#3
Buffalo '66

Buffalo '66

1998★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Twisted Roots for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla and visits his parents with her, pretending she is his girlfriend and they will s...

#4
The Family Friend

The Family Friend

2006★ 7.2

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

Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relation...

#5
The Tree of Wooden Clogs

The Tree of Wooden Clogs

1978★ 7.6

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

On a turn-of-the-20th-century northern Italian farm, a group of sharecroppers eke out a threadbare existence. A priest advises Batisti and his wife Batistina that their young son M...

#6
The Surfer

The Surfer

2025★ 5.8

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

A man returns to the idyllic beach of his childhood to surf with his son. When he is humiliated by a group of locals, the man is drawn into a conflict that keeps rising and pushes ...