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10 Best Movies Like Dark Was the Night

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

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#1
Strange Weather

Strange Weather

2016★ 5.8

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

Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea....

#2
Alex of Venice

Alex of Venice

2015★ 5.9

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

After her stay-at-home husband leaves her, a workaholic lawyer finds that she is not completely up to the tasks of caring for her young son, ailing father and household all by hers...

#3
Bastard Out of Carolina

Bastard Out of Carolina

1996★ 7.2

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

A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer a...

#4
The Safety of Objects

The Safety of Objects

2002★ 6.5

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

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, an...

#5
Mothers' Instinct

Mothers' Instinct

2024★ 6.9

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

Housewives Alice and Celine are best friends and neighbours who seem to have it all. However, when a tragic accident shatters the harmony of their lives, guilt, suspicion and paran...

#6
El Chicano

El Chicano

2019★ 6.6

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

A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law....

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