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10 Best Movies Like The Night Burns

If you loved The Night Burns, 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 The Night Burns 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
Five Seconds

Five Seconds

2025★ 6.7

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

Adriano is a middle-aged man living in a dilapidated villa in Tuscany, when a group of young idealistic students arrives to restore the villa's vineyards....

#3
Euphoria

Euphoria

2018★ 6.5

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

Matteo is a young successful businessman, audacious, charming and energetic. Ettore instead, is a calm, righteous, second grade teacher always living in the shadows, still in the s...

#4
40 Seconds

40 Seconds

2025★ 7.2

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

It explores the tragic events leading up to the murder of 21-year-old Willy Monteiro Duarte, highlighting the intertwining of chance encounters, rivalries, and latent tensions....

#5
Cardboard Boxer

Cardboard Boxer

2016★ 6.3

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

Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl....

#6
Charm City Kings

Charm City Kings

2020★ 7.8

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

Mouse desperately wants to join The Midnight Clique, the infamous Baltimore dirt bike riders who rule the summertime streets. When Midnight’s leader, Blax, takes 14-year-old Mouse ...

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