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10 Best Movies Like Happy Independence Day

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

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#1
The Coach

The Coach

2018★ 6.6

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

#2
Living

Living

2012★ 6.6

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

Fate brings ordeals to characters that find themselves immersed in deep crisis; they must seek the strength to cope with adversity. In a remote and cold region of Russia, Galya, a ...

#3
Flights in Dreams and in Reality

Flights in Dreams and in Reality

1983★ 6.5

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

On the eve of his fortieth anniversary Sergei Makarov looks back at his life and learns that he has achieved nothing. He was not able to be happy and to bring happiness to the clos...

#4
The End of St. Petersburg

The End of St. Petersburg

1927★ 6.7

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

Shortly before the outbreak of WWI, a peasant from rural Russia arrives in St. Petersburg to find work....

#5
The Last Bus

The Last Bus

2021★ 6.5

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

Widower Tom, on the recent passing of his wife Mary, uses his free bus pass to travel the length of Britain from John O'Groats in Caithness to Land's End in Cornwall, their shared ...

#6
Salomé

Salomé

2013★ 6.2

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

After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his k...

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