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10 Best Movies Like Short Summer

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

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#1
White Bim Black Ear

White Bim Black Ear

1977★ 7.1

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

A touching story about a white Gordon Setter with black ear, who became homeless because of his master's illness. His master, Ivan Ivanovich, a man far from being young, fond of hu...

#2
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

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

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

#3
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Short Summer 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...

#4
Little Boy Blue

Little Boy Blue

1997★ 6.0

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

Living in rural Texas is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that's left him impotent; a compliant wife and a son of about 20, two small sons who...

#5
Johnny Belinda

Johnny Belinda

1948★ 6.8

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

A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate....

#6
Farming

Farming

2018★ 6.2

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

Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Ins...

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