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10 Best Movies Like A Special Day

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

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#1
Head in the Clouds

Head in the Clouds

2004★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Special Day for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee from Spain. As the world drifts toward war, Gilda defiantly pursues her hedonisti...

#2
The Shadow of the Day

The Shadow of the Day

2022★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Special Day for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 1938 Italy, after Jews are banned from public life, fascist-abiding restaurateur Luciano nonetheless believes he can still live by his own rules. Everything changes when Anna, a...

#3
Love in the City

Love in the City

1953★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Special Day for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Six vignettes explore love and desire in Rome, from prostitution and heartache to unwed motherhood and the male gaze....

#4
Satyricon

Satyricon

1969★ 6.7

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

After his young lover, Gitone, leaves him for another man, Encolpio decides to kill himself, but a sudden earthquake destroys his home before he has a chance to do so. Now wanderin...

#5
The Goddess of Fortune

The Goddess of Fortune

2019★ 7.1

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

Alessandro and Arturo have been together for over 15 years and, despite the feeling they still have for each other, their relationship is now at crisis. When Alessandro’s best frie...

#6
Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

1996★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Special Day for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt ...

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