10 Best Movies Like Unexpected Places
If you loved Unexpected Places, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

War Room
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Unexpected Places for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The family-friendly movie explores the transformational role prayer plays in the lives of the Jordan family. Tony and Elizabeth Jordan, a middle-class couple who seemingly have it ...

The Safety of Objects
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Unexpected Places 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...

Faith Like Potatoes
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Unexpected Places for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Frank Rautenbach leads a strong cast as Angus Buchan, a Zambian farmer of Scottish heritage, who leaves his farm in the midst of political unrest and racially charged land reclaims...

The Forge
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Unexpected Places for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
19 year old Isaiah Wright lives for basketball and video games. A year out of high school, he has no job, no plans, and no idea how to be a man. At odds with his single mother Cynt...

Bastard Out of Carolina
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Unexpected Places 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...

Suburbia
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Unexpected Places for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like...