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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.

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#1
Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything

Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything

2023★ 5.8

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

Set in a warm summer in 1990 in former East Germany, it follows a young woman who begins a relationship with a charismatic farmer who is twice her age....

#2
Love Streams

Love Streams

1984★ 7.2

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

Two closely-bound, emotionally wounded siblings reunite after years apart....

#3
Three Violent People

Three Violent People

1956★ 6.0

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

A rancher, his shady bride and his one-armed brother fight amid carpetbaggers in Texas....

#4
Hellion

Hellion

2014★ 5.9

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

When motocross and heavy metal obsessed, 13-year-old Jacob's delinquent behavior forces CPS to place his little brother Wes with his aunt, Jacob and his emotionally absent father m...

#5
The Beautiful Country

The Beautiful Country

2004★ 5.9

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

After reuniting with his mother in Ho Chi Minh City, a family tragedy causes Binh to flee from Viet Nam to America. Landing in New York, Binh begins a road trip to Texas, where his...

#6
El Chicano

El Chicano

2019★ 6.6

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

A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law....

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