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10 Best Movies Like After Dark, My Sweet

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

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#1
The Asadas!

The Asadas!

2020★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to After Dark, My Sweet for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Masashi is a photographer. He has his parents and an older brother Yukihiro. Through the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Masashi begins to take staged photos of his family....

#2
My Beautiful Laundrette

My Beautiful Laundrette

1985★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to After Dark, My Sweet for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A young Pakistani Briton manages a rundown laundrette with his lover while dealing with tension in his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads....

#3
The Teacher

The Teacher

2016★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to After Dark, My Sweet for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

The principal of an elementary school calls a special parents meeting after it’s alleged that the seemingly empathetic and kindly-looking teacher Mrs. Drazděchová uses her students...

#4
Next of Kin

Next of Kin

1989★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to After Dark, My Sweet for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Truman Gates, a Chicago cop, sets out to find his brother's killer. Meanwhile, another of his brothers, Briar (a hillbilly) decides to find the killer himself....

#5
The Girl from the Red Cabaret

The Girl from the Red Cabaret

1973★ 4.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to After Dark, My Sweet for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Harvey hires Mary to seduce his rival Larry and help him gain his revenge. But Maria and Larry fall in love and things become complicated....

#6
The Fall

The Fall

2006★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to After Dark, My Sweet for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story about 5 mythical heroes...