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10 Best Movies Like What the Sun Saw

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

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#1
Adam

Adam

2020★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to What the Sun Saw for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A hard-living salesman becomes a quadriplegic after an accident....

#2
All Together Now

All Together Now

2020★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to What the Sun Saw for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An optimistic, talented teen clings to a huge secret: she's homeless and living on a school bus. When tragedy strikes, can she learn to accept a helping hand?...

#3
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to What the Sun Saw for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell....

#4
Cardboard Boxer

Cardboard Boxer

2016★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to What the Sun Saw 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....

#5
Trafficked

Trafficked

2017★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to What the Sun Saw for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In this story inspired by real characters, three girls from America, Nigeria and India are trafficked through an elaborate global network and enslaved in a Texas brothel, and must ...

#6
The River

The River

1984★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to What the Sun Saw for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer a...

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