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10 Best Movies Like Bright Day

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

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#1
Buddha Mountain

Buddha Mountain

2011★ 6.8

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

In Chengdu, China, a retired female opera singer named Master Chang takes in a trio of young tenants into her boarding home. The tenants include a rock singer and a college student...

#2
XX/XY

XX/XY

2002★ 5.8

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

Three friends begin a dangerous three-way relationship that spirals out of control, leading to dire consequences that haunt them ten years later....

#3
Getting Home

Getting Home

2007★ 7.3

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

A black comedy about a farmer who tries to bring home the body of his friend, who died far from their town....

#4
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#5
Summer Palace

Summer Palace

2006★ 7.3

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

Yu Hong leaves her home village and starts university in Beijing, where she develops a consuming and compulsive relationship with another student. The student riots from 1989 then ...

#6
Farming

Farming

2018★ 6.2

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

Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Ins...

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