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Movies Like Passionate Summer

If you liked Passionate Summer (1956), a drama movie directed by Charles Brabant, 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. 1Full Time

    Full Time (2022)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    Julie finally gets an interview for a job where she can raise her children better only to run into a national transit strike.

  2. 2Bastard Out of Carolina

    Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as…

  3. 3Bloody Milk

    Bloody Milk (2017)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    Pierre, in his thirties, is a breeder of dairy cattle. His life revolves around his farm, his veterinarian sister and his parents whose livestock he took over. As the first cases of a zoonotic outbreak are reported in…

  4. 4Holy Lands

    Holy Lands (2019)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks his family and his new neighbours. Back in New York, Harry’s ex-wife…

  5. 5Mexicali

    Mexicali (2026)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama

    A former special forces contractor is forced out of retirement as an avocado farmer in Mexico when local gangsters try to force him and his family off their farm.

  6. 6The Young One

    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.

  7. 7The Beasts

    The Beasts (2022)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    Antoine and Olga, a French couple, have been living in a small village in Galicia for a long time. They practice eco-responsible agriculture and restore abandoned houses to facilitate repopulation. Everything should be…

  8. 8The Cage

    The Cage (1975)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    The story of a woman who is suddenly visited by her estranged ex-husband. The ex-hubby wants to buy her country house, which she received in the divorce settlement. Instead he finds himself locked in a cage in the…

  9. 9Chaos

    Chaos (2001)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    A bourgeois couple, modern yet conventional. One night by accident, a young prostitute barges into their lives. Hounded down, beaten up, threatened, she will continue to struggle, with the help of a well off lady…

  10. 10Ad Vitam

    Ad Vitam (2025)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    When he and his pregnant wife are attacked in their home, a former elite agent becomes trapped in a deadly manhunt tied to his own painful past.

  11. 11The Parts You Lose

    The Parts You Lose (2019)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    An unlikely friendship unfolds between a young deaf boy, Wesley, and a fugitive criminal who takes refuge in an abandoned barn on the family’s rural North Dakota farm.

  12. 12The Nest

    The Nest (2020)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban…

  13. 13What Maisie Knew

    What Maisie Knew (2013)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    In New York City, six-year-old Maisie is caught in the middle of a bitter custody battle between her self-absorbed parents—an aging rock singer mother and a distracted art dealer father. As both quickly marry new…

  14. 14Haute Couture

    Haute Couture (2021)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    Esther is at the end of her career as Head Seamstress at Dior Avenue Montaigne workshop. One day, she gets her handbag stolen in the metro by a 20 years old girl, Jade. Instead of calling the police she decides to take…

  15. 15The Kindness of Strangers

    The Kindness of Strangers (2019)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who gets them into an emergency shelter…

  16. 16F.I.S.T.

    F.I.S.T. (1978)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher his methods become more ruthless and finally senator Madison starts…

  17. 17Juliette in Spring

    Juliette in Spring (2024)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    Juliette goes back in her hometown to spend some time with her family. She finds herself between a loving but moody father, a New Age mother, a sister in the midst of an existential crisis, and a grandmother slowly…

  18. 18Breathe

    Breathe (2014)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    Charlie, a 17-year-old girl tortured by doubt, is thrilled when she becomes friends with Sarah, but when Sarah tires of Charlie and looks for a new friend, their relationship takes an ominous turn.

  19. 1924 Days

    24 Days (2014)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    When Ilan Halimi is kidnapped for ransom because Jewish and supposedly rich, his family and the police start a race against time to save him from the tortures of the "gang of barbarians".

  20. 20Out of Love

    Out of Love (2025)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    When Jeanne, a meticulous insurance assessor, is suddenly left to care for her estranged sister’s two children after their mother vanishes, her carefully ordered life begins to unravel. Confronted with unexpected…

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