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10 Best Movies Like The Long Day Closes

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

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#1
Mr. Church

Mr. Church

2016★ 7.4

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

A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fift...

#2
A Taste of Honey

A Taste of Honey

1961★ 7.0

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

While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo has a brief affair that leaves her pregnant and abandoned. When her mother remarr...

#3
Lilting

Lilting

2014★ 6.9

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

A young man of Chinese-Cambodian descent dies, leaving behind his isolated mother and his lover of four years. Though the two don't share a language, they grow close through their ...

#4
Secrets & Lies

Secrets & Lies

1996★ 7.6

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

After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white wo...

#5
Tigertail

Tigertail

2020★ 6.7

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

A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter....

#6
Back to Black

Back to Black

2024★ 6.7

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

The extraordinary story of Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame from her early days in Camden through the making of her groundbreaking album, Back to Black that catapulted Winehouse ...

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