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10 Best Movies Like The Long Bright Dark

If you loved The Long Bright Dark, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
A Sun

A Sun

2019★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Long Bright Dark for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A family of four fractures under the weight of unmet expectations, unexpected tragedy, and uncompromising pride....

#2
Siberian Education

Siberian Education

2013★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Long Bright Dark for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The story of a gang of children growing up in a community of banished criminals, in a forgotten corner of the former Soviet Union. This community rejects the world outside. The onl...

#3
12 Citizens

12 Citizens

2014★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Long Bright Dark for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When the film broke out that a young man coming from a rich adopted family murdered his birth father, the controversy around the case hit a nerve with the public at large. An exper...

#4
Òlòtūré

Òlòtūré

2019★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Long Bright Dark for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In Lagos, Nigeria, young, naive Nigerian journalist Òlòtūré goes undercover to expose the shady underworld of human trafficking. Unused to this brutal environment, crawling with ru...

#5
Mob Town

Mob Town

2019★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Long Bright Dark for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Based on the true story of the notorious 1957 ‘mob summit’ in upstate New York. Spearheaded by Vito Genovese, more than 50 leaders of the organized crime syndicates from around the...

#6
True Believer

True Believer

1989★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Long Bright Dark for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Eddie Dodd is a burnt out former civil rights lawyer who now specializes in defending drug dealers. Roger Baron, newly graduated from law school, has followed Eddie's great cases a...

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