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10 Best Movies Like Western Lights

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

#1
You Are Not Alone

You Are Not Alone

1978★ 7.4

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

Young teenager Bo is too sensitive for the hothouse atmosphere of a boarding school run by a cold, unfeeling would-be man of the cloth. Lonely and scared, he finds a soulmate in th...

#2
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Western Lights for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....

#3
Julieta

Julieta

2016★ 7.0

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

The film spans 30 years in Julieta’s life from a nostalgic 1985 where everything seems hopeful, to 2015 where her life appears to be beyond repair and she is on the verge of madnes...

#4
Call Me by Your Name

Call Me by Your Name

2017★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Western Lights for fans of Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-...

#5
Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

2023★ 8.0

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

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II....

#6
The Florida Project

The Florida Project

2017★ 7.4

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

The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults aro...