Movies Like Some Far-Away Light

If you liked Some Far-Away Light (1969), a drama movie directed by Josip Lešić, 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.

1
The Million Dollar Hotel (2000)
★ 5.9/10Also drama
A federal agent searches for a potential killer among the bizarre residents of a dilapidated Los Angeles hotel.
2
Fourteen Hours (1951)
★ 7.2/10Also drama
A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of a building with the intention of committing suicide. A policeman…
3
The Number 23 (2007)
★ 6.4/10Also drama
Animal control officer Walter Sparrow becomes obsessed with a novel that he believes was written about him, as more and more similarities between himself and his literary alter ego seem to arise.
4
The Night Clerk (2020)
★ 6.2/10Also drama
Hotel night clerk Bart Bromley is a highly intelligent young man on the Autism spectrum. When a woman is murdered during his shift, Bart becomes the prime suspect. As the police investigation closes in, Bart makes a…
5
Fractured (2019)
★ 6.8/10Also drama
Driving cross-country, Ray and his wife and daughter stop at a highway rest area where his daughter falls and breaks her arm. After a frantic rush to the hospital and a clash with the check-in nurse, Ray is finally…
6
Don't Bother to Knock (1952)
★ 6.6/10Also drama
An airline pilot pursues a live-in babysitter at his hotel and gradually realizes she is not as stable as perhaps she should be.
7
The Killer Inside Me (2010)
★ 5.8/10Also drama
Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town, patient and apparently thoughtful. Some people think he is a little slow and maybe boring, but that is the worst they say about him…
8
Insomnia (2002)
★ 7/10Also drama
Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
9
The Nile Hilton Incident (2017)
★ 6.6/10Also drama
Cairo, 2011. A police officer investigates the murder of a woman in a luxurious hotel in the days leading up to the Egyptian revolution.
10
The Guilty (2021)
★ 6.4/10Also drama
A demoted police officer assigned to a call dispatch desk is conflicted when he receives an emergency phone call from a kidnapped woman.
11
Interstate 60 (2002)
★ 7.4/10Also drama
An aspiring painter meets various characters and learns valuable lessons while traveling across America.
12
Horns (2013)
★ 6.3/10Also drama
In the aftermath of his girlfriend's mysterious death, a young man awakens to strange horns sprouting from his temples.
13
The Client (1994)
★ 6.7/10Also drama
A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a Mafia hit-man. Before Jerome shoots himself, he tells Mark where the…
14
The Young One (1960)
★ 7/10Also drama
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
15
Bobby (2006)
★ 6.4/10Also drama
In 1968 the lives of a retired doorman, hotel manager, lounge singer, busboy, beautician and others intersect in the wake of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
16
Before I Fall (2017)
★ 7/10Also drama
Samantha Kingston has everything. Then, everything changes. After one fateful night, she wakes up with no future at all. Trapped into reliving the same day over and over, she begins to question just how perfect her…
17
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
★ 8.2/10Also drama
An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man being tried for the murder of a…
18
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025)
★ 6.3/10Also drama
With her life crashing down around her, Linda attempts to navigate her child's mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist.
19
Cellular (2004)
★ 6.4/10Also drama
A young man receives an emergency phone call on his cell phone from an older woman. She claims to have been kidnapped – and the kidnappers have targeted her husband and child next.
20
Tyler Perry's Duplicity (2025)
★ 6.6/10Also drama
High-powered attorney Marley faces her most personal case yet when she is tasked with uncovering the truth behind the murder of her best friend Fela’s husband. With the help of her boyfriend – a former cop turned…