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10 Best Movies Like Damned Summer

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

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#1
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

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

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of gettin...

#2
The Dreamseller

The Dreamseller

2016★ 6.7

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

A disillusioned psychologist tries to commit suicide until he strikes up a friendship with an unlikely saviour who teaches him a new way of living....

#3
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

1977★ 5.8

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

A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality....

#4
Kisses

Kisses

2008★ 7.1

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

Two kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home on Christmas Day and spend a night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin....

#5
Casa Grande

Casa Grande

2014★ 6.9

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

As a privileged teenager living in an affluent suburb of Rio de Janeiro, Jean has little to worry about beyond games, grades and girls. But as his overbearing father drags the fami...

#6
Tigertail

Tigertail

2020★ 6.7

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

A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter....

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