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10 Best Movies Like Sometime in August

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

#1
Loose Cannons

Loose Cannons

2010★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sometime in August for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Tommaso is the youngest son of the Cantones, a large, traditional southern Italian family operating a pasta-making business since the 1960s. On a trip home from Rome, where he stud...

#2
Noise

Noise

2007★ 6.0

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

The community reels after an incident on a suburban train. A young cop, beset with doubt and afflicted with tinnitus, is pitched into the chaos that follows this tragic event. He s...

#3
Pulp Fiction

Pulp Fiction

1994★ 8.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sometime in August for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in ...

#4
12 Angry Men

12 Angry Men

1957★ 8.6

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

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begi...

#5
The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption

1994★ 8.7

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

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting ski...

#6
The Godfather

The Godfather

1972★ 8.7

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

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attemp...