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10 Best Movies Like Hot Year

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

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#1
Julia

Julia

1977★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hot Year for fans of Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany....

#2
Malcolm & Marie

Malcolm & Marie

2021★ 7.0

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

As a filmmaker and his girlfriend return home from his movie premiere, smoldering tensions and painful revelations push them toward a romantic reckoning....

#3
Anniversary

Anniversary

2025★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hot Year for fans of Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When Ellen and Paul’s son Josh introduces his new girlfriend at their 25th anniversary party, no one suspects that it is the beginning of the end for this happy family. The new gir...

#4
Author! Author!

Author! Author!

1982★ 5.9

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

A broadway playwright is burning the candle at both ends. He is dealing with pressure from a production nearing premiere, a wife who is leaving him, and 5 children 4 of which belon...

#5
My First Mister

My First Mister

2001★ 6.5

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

Leelee Sobieski is brash, abrasive and vulnerable as a teenage child of divorce who hides her pain behind a mask of hard-edged gothic rebellion. Albert Brooks plays a man who is he...

#6
I Can't Think Straight

I Can't Think Straight

2008★ 7.5

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

Tala, a London-based Palestinian, is preparing for her elaborate Middle Eastern wedding when she meets Leyla, a young British Indian woman who is dating her best friend. Spirited C...

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