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10 Best Movies Like Side A: A Summer Day

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

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#1
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Side A: A Summer Day 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....

#2
American Son

American Son

2019★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Side A: A Summer Day for fans of Drama. 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....

#3
Bastard Out of Carolina

Bastard Out of Carolina

1996★ 7.2

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

A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer a...

#4
The Boys from Fengkuei

The Boys from Fengkuei

1983★ 7.2

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

Ah-Ching and his friends have just finished school in their island fishing village, and now spend most of their time drinking and fighting. Three of them decide to go to the port c...

#5
The Rescue

The Rescue

2020★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Side A: A Summer Day for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A rescue unit within the Chinese Coast Guard are forced to overcome their personal differences to resolve a crisis....

#6
Upstream

Upstream

2024★ 6.9

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

A moment of impulsiveness turns Gao Zhilei into a "stay-at-home" individual, but he never expected his life to take a turn in the opposite direction. A series of changes compel him...

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