Movies Like When the Light Breaks
If you liked When the Light Breaks (2024), a drama movie directed by Rúnar Rúnarsson, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Mr. Church (2016)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaA unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fifteen years.
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At Eternity's Gate (2018)
★ 7/10Also dramaFamed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.
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The Miracle Season (2018)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaAfter the tragic death of star volleyball player Caroline "Line" Found, a team of dispirited high school girls must band together under the guidance of their tough-love coach in hopes of winning the state championship!
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Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaA recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.
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Eleanor the Great (2025)
★ 6.8/10Also drama94-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.
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Loving Vincent (2017)
★ 8/10Also dramaA young man arrives at the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.
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Northfork (2003)
★ 6/10Also dramaThe year is 1955, and a great flood is coming to Northfork, Montana. A new hydroelectric dam is about to be installed in the mountains above the town, ready to submerge the valley in the name of progress. It is the…
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Tigertail (2020)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaA man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter.
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The Girl in the Book (2015)
★ 5.8/10Also dramaThe story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
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The Starling (2021)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaA woman adjusting to life after a loss contends with a feisty bird that's taken over her garden — and a husband who's struggling to find a way forward.
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The Human Voice (2020)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaA woman watches time pass beside the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn't understand that his master has abandoned him.
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Call Me Crazy: A Five Film (2013)
★ 7/10Also dramaA psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
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Synecdoche, New York (2008)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaA theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
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Interiors (1978)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaWhen Eve, an interior designer, is deserted by her husband of many years, Arthur, the emotionally glacial relationships of the three grown-up daughters are laid bare. Twisted by jealousy, insecurity and resentment…
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Heart of Champions (2021)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaDuring their last year at an Ivy League college in 1999, a group of friends and crew teammates' lives are changed forever when an army vet takes over as coach of their dysfunctional rowing team.
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Hereafter (2010)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaThree people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.
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Daddy Longlegs (2010)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaAfter months of living a solitary existence, Lenny, 34, picks up his kids from school. Every year he spends a couple of weeks with his sons Sage, 9, and Frey, 7. Lenny hosts his kids within a midtown studio apartment…
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The Giver (2014)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaIn a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.
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Rabbit Hole (2010)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaLife for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.
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The Eternal Daughter (2022)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaAn artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets when they return to a former family home, now a hotel haunted by its mysterious past.