
10 Best Movies Like When Day Breaks
If you loved When Day Breaks, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Freedom Writers
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When Day Breaks for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school....

The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When Day Breaks for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish pati...

The Boy in the Woods
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When Day Breaks for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The remarkable true-life survival story of a Jewish boy hiding and being hunted in the forests of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, based on Maxwell Smart's memoir....

Adam Resurrected
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When Day Breaks for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
After again attempting to commit murder, a Jewish man with a mysterious past and extraordinary intelligence, charisma, and body control returns to an insane asylum, where he makes ...

Eleanor the Great
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When Day Breaks for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades....

The Devil's Arithmetic
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When Day Breaks for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
An American-born Jewish adolescent, Hannah Stern, is uninterested in the culture, faith and customs of her relatives. However, she begins to revaluate her heritage when she has a s...