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10 Best Movies Like Light It Up at 2 AM

If you loved Light It Up at 2 AM, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Vanishing of Sidney Hall

The Vanishing of Sidney Hall

2018★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Light It Up at 2 AM for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Over the course of 12 years, and three stages of life, Sidney Hall falls in love, writes the book of a generation and then disappears without a trace....

#2
Tigertail

Tigertail

2020★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Light It Up at 2 AM 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....

#3
Everyone Is There

Everyone Is There

2020★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Light It Up at 2 AM for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Soo Yeon decides to commit suicide to end the bullying she goes through at school, when a savior appears. A woman punishes the bullies on behalf of Soo Yeon and saves her from the ...

#4
A Brand New Life

A Brand New Life

2009★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Light It Up at 2 AM for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Young Jin-hee is taken by her father to an orphanage near Seoul. He leaves her there never to return, and she struggles to come to grips with her fate. Jin-hee desperately believes...

#5
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Light It Up at 2 AM 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...

#6
Maria's Lovers

Maria's Lovers

1984★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Light It Up at 2 AM for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A World War II prisoner returns home to his childhood sweetheart. However, back home, he discovers that he has to compete to win her love....

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