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10 Best Movies Like If the Sun Never Returns

If you loved If the Sun Never Returns, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

#1
Max Dugan Returns

Max Dugan Returns

1983★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to If the Sun Never Returns for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

An English teacher and struggling single mother has her life disrupted when the father who abandoned her as a child comes back into her life....

#2
Cries and Whispers

Cries and Whispers

1972★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to If the Sun Never Returns for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so immersed in their own psychic pains that they are unable to offer her the support she needs....

#3
The Man Who Would Be King

The Man Who Would Be King

1975★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to If the Sun Never Returns for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Tired of life as soldiers, Peachy Carnehan and Danny Dravot travel to the isolated land of Kafiristan, where they are ultimately embraced by the people and revered as rulers. After...

#4
The Longest Day

The Longest Day

1962★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to If the Sun Never Returns for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as p...

#5
Love and Death

Love and Death

1975★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to If the Sun Never Returns for fans of History. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon....

#6
The Cave of the Golden Rose 3

The Cave of the Golden Rose 3

1993★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to If the Sun Never Returns for fans of Romance. It captures a similar heartwarming atmosphere.

The powerful evil wizard Tarabas gets knowledge about a prophecy that a king's child will defeat him. So he sends out his army of dead soldiers to kidnap all royal children. When t...