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10 Best Movies Like Work on the Grass

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

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#1
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

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

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

#2
True Colors

True Colors

1991★ 6.2

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

Two law school friends find themselves at odds when one becomes a Justice Department lawyer and the other goes into politics....

#3
Dangerous

Dangerous

2021★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Work on the Grass for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A reformed sociopath heads to a remote island after the death of his brother. Soon after his arrival, the island falls under siege from a deadly gang of mercenaries, and when he di...

#4
Farming

Farming

2018★ 6.2

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

Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Ins...

#5
The Lords of Discipline

The Lords of Discipline

1983★ 6.6

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

Will arrives for his last year at Military Academy, in the Deep South USA, in the 1960's. A black student, Pearce, has been accepted, for the first time and Will is asked to keep a...

#6
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

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

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of gettin...

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