
10 Best Movies Like Home Before Dark
If you loved Home Before Dark, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Girl, Interrupted
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Home Before Dark for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wond...

Fathers and Daughters
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Home Before Dark for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own....

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Home Before Dark for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domine...

Shutter Island
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Home Before Dark for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by tro...

Neverwas
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Home Before Dark for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Zach Riley is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, Millwood. What he doesn't reveal at the time o...

Howl
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Home Before Dark for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that l...