Movies like The Most Hated Woman in America (2017)
The best movies like The Most Hated Woman in America (2017) are Tallulah (2016), Trial by Fire (2019) and Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018). If The Most Hated Woman in America hooked you with its crime and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedTrial by Fire (2019)7.0/10 from 287 votes
- NewestGood Girl Jane (2024)Released 2024
Tallulah (2016)
Desperate to be rid of her toddler, a dissatisfied Beverly Hills housewife hires a stranger to babysit and ends up getting much more than she bargained for.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTrial by Fire (2019)
The tragic and controversial story of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed in Texas for killing his three children after scientific evidence and expert testimony that bolstered his claims of innocence were suppressed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCan You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
When a bestselling celebrity biographer is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChristine (2016)
In 1974, television reporter Christine Chubbuck struggles with depression and professional frustrations as she tries to advance her career.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Pardon (2013)
Toni Jo tries to break her husband, Cowboy, out of prison and becomes an instant sensation due to her beauty.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
An Open Secret (2014)
An investigation into accusations of teenagers being sexually abused within the film industry.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisClemency (2019)
Years of carrying out death row executions have taken a toll on prison warden Bernadine Williams. As she prepares to execute another inmate, Bernadine must confront the psychological and emotional demons her job creates, ultimately connecting her to the man she is sanctioned to kill.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021)
From the 1960s to the 1980s, evangelist Jim Baker and his ambitious wife, Tammy Faye, rose from humble beginnings to build an empire based on big-time evangelical Christianity--only for the couple to fall from grace because of some all-too-human sins.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHot Air (2018)
A right-wing talk show host's life takes a sudden turn when his 16-year-old niece comes crashing into his life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Before You Know It (2019)
A pair of sisters find out that the mother they thought was dead is alive and starring on a soap opera.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
My Friend Dahmer (2017)
Jeffrey Dahmer struggles with a difficult family life as a young boy. During his teenage years he slowly transforms, edging closer to the serial killer he was to become.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSugar Daddies (2014)
When a girl with a promising future finds herself in financial straits, she makes an agreement with an older man and struggles to keep it secret.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Ingrid Goes West (2017)
Ingrid becomes obsessed with a social network star named Taylor Sloane who seemingly has a perfect life. But when Ingrid decides to drop everything and move west to be Taylor's friend, her behaviour turns unsettling and dangerous.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisConfirmation (2016)
Judge Clarence Thomas' nomination to the United States' Supreme Court is called into question when former colleague, Anita Hill, testifies that he had sexually harassed her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKings (2017)
A foster family in South Central a few weeks before the city erupts in violence following the verdict of the Rodney King trial in 1992.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisBurning Cane (2019)
Set among the cane fields of rural Louisiana, Burning Cane follows a deeply religious mother struggling to reconcile her convictions of faith with the love she has for her troubled son.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
6 Balloons (2018)
Over the course of one night, a woman drives across LA with her heroin addict brother in search of a detox center, with his two-year-old daughter in tow.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Book of Love (2017)
After tragedy strikes Henry and Penny, he befriends a tenacious young girl and discovers she is constructing a raft to sail across the Atlantic to find her lost father. Together, along with some unlikely friends, they set forth to construct the vessel and subsequently rebuild their lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLittle Woods (2019)
For years, Ollie has illicitly helped the struggling residents of her North Dakota oil boomtown access Canadian health care and medication. When the authorities catch on, she plans to abandon her crusade, only to be dragged in even deeper after a desperate plea for help from her sister.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisGood Girl Jane (2024)
Desperate for connection, young Jane meets a group of teen misfits who offer her acceptance and camaraderie. She falls hard for their playful but domineering ringleader, Jamie, and becomes entangled in his drug operation. As her life spirals out of control, Jane must choose between Jamie and her own survival.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Captive (2015)
Based on a miraculous true story that drew the attention of the entire nation, is the dramatic, thrilling, and spiritual journey of Ashley Smith and Brian Nichols. After being taken hostage by Brian in her own apartment, Ashley turns to Rick Warren’s inspirational book, The Purpose Driven Life, for guidance. In reading from the book, Ashley not only finds purpose in her own life, but helps Brian find a more peaceful resolution to a harrowing situation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisUnpregnant (2020)
After discovering she can’t legally get an abortion in Missouri without her parents’ permission, teenager Veronica convinces her former best friend Bailey to take a road trip to Albuquerque to seek the procedure.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBarry (2016)
A young Barack Obama forges his identity while dealing with race, divergent cultures and ordinary life as a New York City college student.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisGirl Most Likely (2013)
A failed New York playwright stages a suicide in an attempt to win back her ex, only to wind up in the custody of her gambling-addict mother.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
SnoozefestMovies like thisWendy Williams: The Movie (2021)
Talk show host Wendy Williams executive produces the biopic on her life, revealing the highs and lows she has experienced throughout the years. Wendy has made herself the go-to source for great celebrity dish on her hit talk show, The Wendy Williams Show, but recently the spotlight has turned towards her. The authorized project provides a revealing look at Wendy’s journey, from her scrappy upstart days in urban radio to the success of her own syndicated talk show.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Cass (2008)
The incredible true story of how an orphaned Jamaican baby, adopted by an elderly white couple and brought up in an all white area of London, became one of the most feared and respected men in Britain.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisAmerican Murderer (2022)
The True story of how charismatic con man Jason Derek Brown bankrolls his extravagant lifestyle through a series of scams. On Brown’s trail: Lance Leising, a dogged FBI special agent determined to put Brown behind bars. When Brown’s funds run low and his past catches up with him, he plots his most elaborate scheme yet, pitting himself against Leising in a deadly game of cat and mouse — and becoming the most unlikely and elusive fugitive on the FBI’s most-wanted list.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisBelly (1998)
Tommy Bundy and Sincere are best friends as well as infamous and ruthless criminals and shot-callers in the hood. Respected by many but feared by all. As the police are closing in on them and new players are looking for a come up, will their reign last?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI Am Elizabeth Smart (2017)
The story of Elizabeth Smart's kidnapping and captivity, as told from her perspective.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGeorgetown (2019)
Ulrich Mott is an eccentric and versatile social climber with grandiose plans to affect United States foreign policy. Encouraged in his attempts by his strategically chosen (and much older) wife, the well-connected journalist Elsa Brecht, Mott has a knack for making himself indispensable and impossible to ignore. The only one seemingly immune to his charms is Elsa's daughter Amanda, who might simply disapprove of her mother marrying a much younger man - or perhaps she senses something more sinister beneath the smooth-talking surface?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Most Hated Woman in America?
The closest matches to The Most Hated Woman in America are Tallulah (2016), Trial by Fire (2019) and Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Most Hated Woman in America?
People who watched The Most Hated Woman in America most often go on to Tallulah (2016), Trial by Fire (2019) and Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Most Hated Woman in America?
Trial by Fire (2019), rated 7.0/10 by 287 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Most Hated Woman in America?
Good Girl Jane (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Most Hated Woman in America?
Yes: Tallulah (2016), Trial by Fire (2019) and Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018).
How are movies similar to The Most Hated Woman in America chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Most Hated Woman in America, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.