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10 Best Movies Like Brave the Dark

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

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#1
Mammal

Mammal

2016★ 6.2

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

After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his i...

#2
Stuart: A Life Backwards

Stuart: A Life Backwards

2007★ 7.4

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

Story about the remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator and a chaotic homeless man, whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers f...

#3
Submission

Submission

2018★ 5.9

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

A well-respected professor who is a celebrated novelist and loving husband loses himself when he becomes obsessed with an ambitious and talented student....

#4
Lean On Me

Lean On Me

1989★ 7.3

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

When principal Joe Clark takes over decaying Eastside High School, he's faced with students wearing gang colors and graffiti-covered walls. Determined to do anything he must to tur...

#5
The United States of Leland

The United States of Leland

2003★ 6.5

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

A withdrawn young man, Leland Fitzgerald is imprisoned for the murder of a mentally disabled boy, who also happened to be the brother of his girlfriend, Becky. As the community str...

#6
Unconditional

Unconditional

2012★ 6.6

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

Samantha Crawford is living a storybook life: she’s happily married, she lives on a ranch where she keeps her beloved horse, and the stories she’s told and illustrated since childh...

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