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10 Best Movies Like Memorial Day

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

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#1
Monkey Business

Monkey Business

1952★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Memorial Day for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours th...

#2
Leopardi

Leopardi

2014★ 6.8

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

In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry....

#3
Made in Britain

Made in Britain

1983★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Memorial Day for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After being sent to a detention centre, a teenage skinhead clashes with the social workers who want to conform him to the status quo....

#4
Taxidermia

Taxidermia

2006★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Memorial Day for fans of Drama. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Set over three generations and beginning with a sexually frustrated orderly during WWII who relieves his tensions in the most outlandish, gross ways. The result of his liaison is a...

#5
Closely Watched Trains

Closely Watched Trains

1966★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Memorial Day for fans of War & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Oblivious to the war and the resistance th...

#6
Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael

Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael

1990★ 6.1

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

Movie star Roxy Carmichael is abandoning the bright lights of Hollywood, Calif. and returning to her small Ohio hometown -- at least long enough to dedicate a city building. And no...