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10 Best Movies Like Before Night Falls

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

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#1
The Lost City

The Lost City

2005★ 6.1

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

In Havana, Cuba in the late 1950's, a wealthy family, one of whose sons is a prominent nightclub owner, is caught in the violent transition from the oppressive regime of Batista to...

#2
Che: Part One

Che: Part One

2008★ 6.8

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

Ernesto Guevara, known as 'Che', leads a group of Cuban exiles under Fidel Castro in a revolution to overthrow Fulgencio Batista, the dictator of Cuba....

#3
Little Ashes

Little Ashes

2008★ 5.9

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

About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca....

#4
Kill Your Darlings

Kill Your Darlings

2013★ 7.0

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

A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs....

#5
Imaginary Heroes

Imaginary Heroes

2004★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Before Night Falls for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Matt Travis is good-looking, popular, and his school's best competitive swimmer, so everyone is shocked when he inexplicably commits suicide. As the following year unfolds, each me...

#6
Conspiracy Theory

Conspiracy Theory

1997★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Before Night Falls for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A man obsessed with conspiracy theories becomes a target after one of his theories turns out to be true. Unfortunately, in order to save himself, he has to figure out which theory ...

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