If You Liked White Material, Watch These Next
Finished White Material (2010) and want more of the same? These 19 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like White Material, most of them are drama.
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19 titles · updated 2nd 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.Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl(1998)
7.2DramaAlso drama
Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.
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3.150 Milligrams(2016)
6.8DramaAlso drama
In the hospital where she works in Brest, France, a lung specialist discovers a direct link between suspicious deaths and state-approved medicine. She fights single-handedly for the truth to come out.
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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.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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6.The Short History of the Long Road(2019)
7.1DramaAlso 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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7.Bastard Out of Carolina(1996)
7.1DramaAlso drama
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 and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
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8.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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9.The Nest(2020)
6.1DramaAlso drama
Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban surroundings, the family is plunged into the despair of an archaic '80s Britain and their unaffordable new life…
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13.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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14.Desert Flower(2009)
7.6DramaAlso drama
The autobiography of a Somalian nomad who was sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is now at the age of 38, the UN spokeswoman against female genital mutilation.
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15.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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17.Trees of Peace(2021)
7.2DramaAlso drama
Four women from different backgrounds forge an unbreakable sisterhood while trapped and in hiding during the genocide in Rwanda.
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