10 Best Movies Like August
If you loved August, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.
The Coach
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to August for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Contemporary Russia. After he flubs a penalty kick, a humiliated national soccer player quits the game. He flees to a small town, where he decides to coach their local team....
The Young One
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to August for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....
My Friend Ivan Lapshin
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to August for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well....
An Unfinished Piece for Player Piano
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to August for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
On a summer day in late 19th century Russia, a group of bourgeois friends and acquaintances gather at a dilapidated country estate....
Closeness
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to August for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
1998, Nalchik. A Jewish family is in trouble: the youngest son and his bride do not come home, and in the morning, a ransom note arrives. The ransom is so high that the family is f...
Dangerous
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to August for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
A reformed sociopath heads to a remote island after the death of his brother. Soon after his arrival, the island falls under siege from a deadly gang of mercenaries, and when he di...