15 Movies Like The Load
Loved The Load? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.

Toma
Biopic about Serbian folk singer Toma Zdravković, the man who is remembered not only for his songs and unique way he was singing them, but also as a bohemian, both in his behavior and his soul.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Load.

King Lear
An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Load.

The Giver
In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Load.

The Rainmaker
Fresh out of law school and desperate for work, idealistic rookie Rudy Baylor takes on a powerful insurance company accused of denying a dying boy’s claim. Teaming up with a scrappy, unlicensed paralegal, he finds himself in a David-versus-Goliath courtroom battle that tests his ethics, courage, and belief in justice.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Load.

TalhotBlond
Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Load.

The Good Lie
A young refugee of the Sudanese Civil War who wins a lottery for relocation to the United States with three other lost boys. Encountering the modern world for the first time, they develop an unlikely friendship with a brash American woman assigned to help them, but the young man struggles to adjust to this new life and his feelings of guilt about the brother he left behind.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Load.

Battle of the Bulge
In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Load.

All Together Now
An optimistic, talented teen clings to a huge secret: she's homeless and living on a school bus. When tragedy strikes, can she learn to accept a helping hand?
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Load.

Starving in Suburbia
When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Load.

What Maisie Knew
In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Load.

Normal
A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Load.

Home
An ex-felon returns home from prison and must confront the demons of his past.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Load.

Underground
Black marketeers Marko and Blacky manufacture and sell weapons to the Communist resistance in WWII Belgrade, living the good life along the way. Marko's surreal duplicity propels him up the ranks of the Communist Party, and he eventually abandons Blacky and steals his girlfriend. After a lengthy stay in a below-ground shelter, the couple reemerges during the Yugoslav Civil War of the 1990s as Marko sees the opportunity to exploit the situation.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Load.

Skin
Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Load.

Go West
In the 1990s, the Yugoslavia Federation falls apart in bloody wars. Perpetual student Milan, a Serb from a patriarchal community, and Kenan, a Muslim cellist, are a gay couple living in Sarajevo. Their lives, intimate and public, are shaken up by the aggression in Bosnia and Herzegovina, whose devastating consequences unfold in inter-ethnic hatred.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Load.