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10 Best Movies Like Afire

If you loved Afire, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Coming Through the Rye

Coming Through the Rye

2016★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Afire for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Coming Through the Rye, set in 1969, is a touching coming of age story of sensitive, 16 year old Jamie Schwartz, who is not the most popular kid at his all boys' boarding school. D...

#2
Cradle Will Rock

Cradle Will Rock

1999★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Afire for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production....

#3
Critical Zone

Critical Zone

2024★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Afire for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Amir leads a lonely life. With his dog for sole company, he drives through the underworld of Tehran, dealing drugs of all kinds and healing troubled souls like a modern prophet. He...

#4
The Load

The Load

2019★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Afire for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Vlada works as a truck driver during the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999. Tasked with transporting a mysterious load from Kosovo to Belgrade, he drives through unfamiliar territory,...

#5
Sea of Time

Sea of Time

2022★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Afire for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Two former lovers find themselves struggling for shared closure as one of them prepares to stage a play about the unspeakable tragedy that tore them apart decades ago....

#6
Les Enchantés

Les Enchantés

2025★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Afire for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When 6-year-old Luce starts school, she realizes that her father Thierry is mentally impaired. Until the start of school, the father-daughter team lived in seclusion in the forest....