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10 Best Movies Like A Shining Season

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

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#1
Cheaters

Cheaters

2000★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Shining Season for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition....

#2
Fast Girls

Fast Girls

2012★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Shining Season for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete....

#3
Hands of Stone

Hands of Stone

2016★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Shining Season for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives....

#4
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Shining Season for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

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 ...

#5
Blue Chips

Blue Chips

1994★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Shining Season for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team isn't winning and he cannot attract new players. The stars of the future are secretly being paid by boost...

#6
Jawbone

Jawbone

2017★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Shining Season for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A former youth boxing champion, Jimmy McCabe is a man in search of hope but looking in all the wrong places. When he hits rock bottom he turns to his childhood boxing club and the ...

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