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10 Best Movies Like When the Day Had No Name

If you loved When the Day Had No Name, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Blue Chips

Blue Chips

1994★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When the Day Had No Name for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team isn't winning and he cannot attract new players. The stars of the future are secretly being paid by boost...

#2
My Dinner with Hervé

My Dinner with Hervé

2018★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When the Day Had No Name for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-toting dwarf, resulting in life-ch...

#3
Personal Effects

Personal Effects

2009★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When the Day Had No Name for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Walter is a rising star in the NCAA wrestling world until his life is ripped apart by the brutal murder of his sister. Returning home to console his mother Gloria he seeks vengeanc...

#4
TalhotBlond

TalhotBlond

2012★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When the Day Had No Name for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately lead...

#5
Striking Distance

Striking Distance

1993★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When the Day Had No Name for fans of Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Coming from a police family, Tom Hardy ends up fighting his uncle after the murder of his father. Tom believes the killer is another cop, and goes on the record with his allegation...

#6
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When the Day Had No Name for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site ...

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