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Movies Like Night Comes On

If you liked Night Comes On (2018), a drama movie directed by Jordana Spiro, 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. 1Dog Pound

    Dog Pound (2010)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    Three juvenile delinquents arrive at a correctional center and are put under the care of an experienced guard.

  2. 2The Deep End of the Ocean

    The Deep End of the Ocean (1999)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    A three-year-old boy disappears during his mother's high school reunion. Nine years later, by chance, he turns up in the town in which the family has just relocated.

  3. 3Flowers in the Attic

    Flowers in the Attic (2014)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    After the sudden death of their father, four children face cruel treatment from their ruthless grandmother.

  4. 4Aftersun

    Aftersun (2022)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama

    Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories fill the gaps between camcorder footages as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with…

  5. 5The Truth About Emanuel

    The Truth About Emanuel (2013)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.

  6. 6Broken Lance

    Broken Lance (1954)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Tensions erupt within an Arizona cattle baron's household when his three sons vie for control of the ranch.

  7. 7Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot

    Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot (2024)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    Led by Donna and Reverend W.C. Martin, 22 families from a rural Black church in the small East Texas town of Possum Trot adopt 77 of the most difficult-to-place kids in the foster system and kickstart a movement in the…

  8. 8The Reckless Moment

    The Reckless Moment (1949)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.

  9. 9Reality

    Reality (2023)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    Augusta, Georgia, United States, June 3, 2017. After running some errands, Reality Winner returns home, where she is approached by two men.

  10. 10Fluke

    Fluke (1995)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    Workaholic Thomas Johnson dies in an auto accident and reincarnates as a dog. Remembering some of his previous being, he returns to his wife and son to protect them from the man who caused his accident. But, as time…

  11. 11I Believe in Unicorns

    I Believe in Unicorns (2015)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter.

  12. 12A Dog's Journey

    A Dog's Journey (2019)

    ★ 8.1/10Also drama

    A dog finds the meaning of his own existence through the lives of the humans he meets.

  13. 13I'll Be Home for Christmas

    I'll Be Home for Christmas (2016)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    Jackie Foster, a dynamic Assistant District Attorney and single mom, is looking forward to wrapping up her latest case and spending Christmas with Gracie, her adorable and precocious, eight-year old daughter. But when…

  14. 14The Woman in the Window

    The Woman in the Window (1944)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.

  15. 15Blue Heron

    Blue Heron (2026)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    A family of six's fresh start on 1990s Vancouver Island unravels as their youngest child, Sasha, witnesses the increasingly dangerous behavior of her older brother, Jeremy.

  16. 16Evelyn

    Evelyn (2002)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children—Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice—make it…

  17. 17Hateship Loveship

    Hateship Loveship (2014)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama

    A shy caretaker believes that the father of her teenage charge is falling in love with her, unaware that she is actually the victim of the girl's prank.

  18. 18Nancy

    Nancy (2018)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama

    Nancy becomes increasingly convinced she was kidnapped as a child. When she meets a couple whose daughter went missing thirty years ago, reasonable doubts give way to willful belief.

  19. 19Inside I'm Dancing

    Inside I'm Dancing (2004)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the formidable Eileen. His life is transformed when the maverick Rory O'Shea moves in.

  20. 20I Am Sam

    I Am Sam (2001)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama

    Sam, a neurodivergent man, has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them when they leave the hospital, leaving Sam to raise Lucy on his own. But as Lucy grows up, Sam's limitations as a parent start to become…

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