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10 Best Movies Like Barefoot at Dawn

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

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#1
Matthias & Maxime

Matthias & Maxime

2019★ 7.1

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

Two childhood best friends are asked to share a kiss for the purposes of a student short film. Soon, a lingering doubt sets in, confronting both men with their preferences, threate...

#2
Kicking and Screaming

Kicking and Screaming

1995★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Barefoot at Dawn for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

After college graduation, Grover's girlfriend Jane tells him she's moving to Prague to study writing. Grover declines to accompany her, deciding instead to move in with several fri...

#3
Peter's Friends

Peter's Friends

1992★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Barefoot at Dawn for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

After inheriting a large country estate from his late father, Peter invites his friends from college: married couple Roger and Mary, the lonely Maggie, fashionable Sarah, and write...

#4
Tolkien

Tolkien

2019★ 6.9

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

England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) and three of his schoolmates create a strong bond between them as they share th...

#5
4th Man Out

4th Man Out

2015★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Barefoot at Dawn for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

After a night of drinking, Adam Hutcherson stumbles out of the closet to his three straight buddies. A disruption to their dynamic which they now must try and overcome through alc...

#6
Sorry Angel

Sorry Angel

2018★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Barefoot at Dawn for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

At once an intimate chronicle of a romance and a sprawling portrait of life in early 1990s France following the intertwining journeys of Jacques, a worldly Parisian writer, and Art...

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