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10 Best Movies Like Unbowed

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

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#1
Iron Jawed Angels

Iron Jawed Angels

2004★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Unbowed 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....

#2
The Safety of Objects

The Safety of Objects

2002★ 6.5

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

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, an...

#3
Mango Yellow

Mango Yellow

2002★ 6.6

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

The lives of a macho butcher, his wife, a lonely waitress, a sadist and a flophouse manager intersect in Recife, Brazil....

#4
Casa Grande

Casa Grande

2014★ 6.8

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

As a privileged teenager living in an affluent suburb of Rio de Janeiro, Jean has little to worry about beyond games, grades and girls. But as his overbearing father drags the fami...

#5
Bastard Out of Carolina

Bastard Out of Carolina

1996★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Unbowed 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...

#6
Split

Split

2016★ 5.9

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

The story of a young woman who takes an epic journey to claim her own darkness and sexuality so she can stop putting it into the hands of her abusive lover. When Inanna, a young a...

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