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10 Best Movies Like After Dawn

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

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#1
Paris 36

Paris 36

2008★ 6.1

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

A star is born in a time of both celebration and instability in this historical drama with music from director Christophe Barratier. In the spring of 1936, Paris is in a state of u...

#2
Chaos

Chaos

2001★ 6.3

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

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, ...

#3
Les Indésirables

Les Indésirables

2023★ 6.2

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

A local activist and a budding young mayor clash over the best path forward for their impoverished suburb....

#4
The Passengers of the Night

The Passengers of the Night

2022★ 6.9

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

On election night in 1981, celebrations spill out onto the street and there is an air of hope and change throughout Paris. But for Elisabeth, her marriage is coming to an end and s...

#5
The Minister

The Minister

2011★ 6.4

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

Transport Minister Bertrand Saint-Jean is awoken in the middle of the night by his head of staff. A bus has gone off the road into a gully. He has no choice but to go to the scene ...

#6
Peter Ibbetson

Peter Ibbetson

1935★ 7.0

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

When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England. Years later, Peter is an architect with little tim...

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