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10 Best Movies Like Sometime in August

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

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#1
Heaven

Heaven

2019★ 6.2

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

Heaven Leigh Casteel, gifted and intelligent, is the eldest of five dirt-poor children struggling to survive in a mountain shack. As she endures neglect and abuse, Heaven discovers...

#2
The Magic of Ordinary Days

The Magic of Ordinary Days

2005★ 7.4

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

Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII....

#3
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

1996★ 7.1

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

A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devot...

#4
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead

Happy New Year, Colin Burstead

2018★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sometime in August for fans of Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Colin has rented a stately country home for his extended family’s New Year celebrations. He’s the centre of attention until his estranged brother David unexpectedly arrives, throwi...

#5
TalhotBlond

TalhotBlond

2012★ 6.3

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

Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately lead...

#6
Cheaters

Cheaters

2000★ 6.2

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

In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition....

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