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10 Best Movies Like Five Years and One Day

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

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#1
The Visit

The Visit

1964★ 7.1

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

Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a multi-m...

#2
God's Pocket

God's Pocket

2014★ 5.8

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

A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist and the young man's mother complicate matters....

#3
The Watchman

The Watchman

2019★ 6.2

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

The protagonist Vlad is a man of about forty; he lives and works as watchman in an old sanatorium that is due to be demolished. He obviously needs this work to live the life of a h...

#4
My Friend Ivan Lapshin

My Friend Ivan Lapshin

1985★ 6.7

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

Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well....

#5
Rose Plays Julie

Rose Plays Julie

2021★ 5.8

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

A story of a young woman searching for her biological mother. Set against a backdrop of misogyny, revenge, and longing, Rose undertakes a journey that leads her to revelations that...

#6
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020★ 6.2

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

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....

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