10 Best Movies Like Distant Lights
If you loved Distant Lights, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Distant Lights for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
19-year-old Billy Lynn is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. Through flashbacks the film shows what really happened to his squad – contrasting the reali...

Reconstruction
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Distant Lights for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Late one evening Alex suddenly abandons his girlfriend, Simone, to pursue the beautiful Aimee. In his encounter with Aimee time and place dissolve for him and he becomes a stranger...

Joker
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Distant Lights for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....

Oppenheimer
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Distant Lights for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II....

Titanic
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Distant Lights for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and...

Shutter Island
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Distant Lights for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by tro...