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10 Best Movies Like Not Yet a Time for Sorrow

If you loved Not Yet a Time for Sorrow, 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 Not Yet a Time for Sorrow 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
My Friend Ivan Lapshin

My Friend Ivan Lapshin

1985★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Not Yet a Time for Sorrow for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well....

#3
The Lords of Discipline

The Lords of Discipline

1983★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Not Yet a Time for Sorrow for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Will arrives for his last year at Military Academy, in the Deep South USA, in the 1960's. A black student, Pearce, has been accepted, for the first time and Will is asked to keep a...

#4
An Unfinished Piece for Player Piano

An Unfinished Piece for Player Piano

1977★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Not Yet a Time for Sorrow for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

On a summer day in late 19th century Russia, a group of bourgeois friends and acquaintances gather at a dilapidated country estate....

#5
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Not Yet a Time for Sorrow for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#6
I'm Not Here

I'm Not Here

2017★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Not Yet a Time for Sorrow for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A man struggles with the tragic memories of his past to make sense of his present, but soon realizes that time isn't the enemy he thinks it is....

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