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10 Best Movies Like A Long Path on a Short Day

If you loved A Long Path on a Short Day, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Coach

The Coach

2018★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Long Path on a Short Day for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Contemporary Russia. After he flubs a penalty kick, a humiliated national soccer player quits the game. He flees to a small town, where he decides to coach their local team....

#2
Reading Lolita in Tehran

Reading Lolita in Tehran

2024★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Long Path on a Short Day for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

As Islamic morality squads stage arbitrary raids in Tehran and as fundamentalists seize hold of the universities, Azar Nafisi, an inspired teacher, secretly gathers six of her most...

#3
Salomé

Salomé

2013★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Long Path on a Short Day for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his k...

#4
Return

Return

2011★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Long Path on a Short Day for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes....

#5
Herself

Herself

2020★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Long Path on a Short Day for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Struggling to provide her daughters with a safe, happy home, Sandra decides to build one - from scratch. Using all her ingenuity to make her ambitious dream a reality, Sandra draws...

#6
Sky

Sky

2015★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Long Path on a Short Day for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A woman embarks on a journey alone across the United States after fleeing from her violent husband....

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