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10 Best Movies Like Fortieth Day

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

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#1
A Question of Faith

A Question of Faith

2017★ 7.3

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

When Tragedy Strikes three Families, their Destiny forces them on a coverging path and mercy as the challenges of their fate could also resurrect their beliefs...

#2
Holy Lands

Holy Lands

2019★ 6.1

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

When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks his family and his new neighbours...

#3
Farming

Farming

2018★ 6.2

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

Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Ins...

#4
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020★ 6.2

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

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....

#5
Cardboard Boxer

Cardboard Boxer

2016★ 6.3

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

Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl....

#6
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Fortieth Day 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....

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