If You Liked Bastard Out of Carolina, Watch These Next
Finished Bastard Out of Carolina (1996) and want more of the same? These 18 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Bastard Out of Carolina, most of them are drama.
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18 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.The Safety of Objects(2002)
6.5DramaAlso drama
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, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new…
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2.Lucky Them(2013)
6.0DramaAlso drama
More interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug has one last chance to prove her value to her magazine’s editor: a no-stone-unturned search to discover what really happened to long lost rock god, Matt Smith, who also happens to be her ex-boyfriend. Teaming…
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3.Strange Weather(2016)
5.9DramaAlso drama
Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.
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4.The Trials of Cate McCall(2013)
6.4DramaAlso drama
In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.
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5.A Dry White Season(1989)
6.7DramaThrillerAlso drama
During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
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6.Holy Lands(2019)
6.1DramaAlso drama
When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks his family and his new neighbours. Back in New York, Harry’s ex-wife Monica is trying to manage the lives of their adult children, Annabelle and David, as well as her own.
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8.El Chicano(2019)
6.6DramaAlso drama
A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.
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10.Goodbye June(2025)
6.5DramaAlso drama
Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.
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11.The Poker House(2008)
6.2DramaAlso drama
Agnes and her two sisters struggle through a day in a home overrun by gamblers, thieves, and johns.
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12.The Road Dance(2022)
6.7DramaAlso drama
A young girl lives in the Outer Hebrides in a small village in the years just before WWI. Isolated and hard by the shore, her life takes a dramatic change when a terrible tragedy befalls her.
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13.My Zoe(2019)
6.5DramaScience FictionAlso drama
Isabelle, a geneticist recovering from a toxic marriage, is raising her only daughter, Zoe, with her contentious ex-husband. Zoe means everything to her mother and so when tragedy strikes the fractured family, Isabelle travels to Russia in seeking the help of a world-renowned fertility physician who Isabelle believes…
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14.The Short History of the Long Road(2019)
7.2DramaAlso drama
Nola grew up living in a van with her father, Clint—two nomads against the world. When tragedy strikes, Nola must confront the reality of life on the road alone, learning to own her grief, her past, and her new destination.
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15.Alex of Venice(2015)
5.9DramaAlso drama
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 herself.
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16.Hands of Stone(2016)
6.6DramaAlso drama
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
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17.Hungry Hearts(2015)
6.5DramaAlso drama
The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.
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18.Split(2016)
5.9FantasyDramaThrillerAlso drama
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 actress, working as a stripper, becomes obsessed with a mask maker, she sacrifices parts of herself and her life, piece by piece, in order…
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