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10 Best Movies Like Nightjohn

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

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#1
Heaven

Heaven

2019★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Nightjohn for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Heaven Leigh Casteel, gifted and intelligent, is the eldest of five dirt-poor children struggling to survive in a mountain shack. As she endures neglect and abuse, Heaven discovers...

#2
Girl in the Box

Girl in the Box

2016★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Nightjohn for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as ...

#3
A Little Princess

A Little Princess

1995★ 7.6

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

When her father enlists to fight for the British in WWI, young Sara Crewe goes to New York to attend the same boarding school her late mother attended. She soon clashes with the se...

#4
American Son

American Son

2019★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Nightjohn for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Time passes and tension mounts in a Florida police station as an estranged interracial couple awaits news of their missing teenage son....

#5
Cheaters

Cheaters

2000★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Nightjohn for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition....

#6
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

1996★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Nightjohn for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devot...

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