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10 Best Movies Like Summer Daze

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

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#1
Old Joy

Old Joy

2006★ 6.3

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

Soon to be a father, Mark feels the pressure of domestic responsibility closing in, so he is more than happy to accept when his old friend Kurt proposes a camping trip in the Orego...

#2
Awake

Awake

2021★ 5.9

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

After a sudden global event wipes out all electronics and takes away humankind’s ability to sleep, chaos quickly begins to consume the world. Only Jill, an ex-soldier with a troubl...

#3
Planet Terror

Planet Terror

2007★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Summer Daze for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Two doctors find their graveyard shift inundated with townspeople ravaged by sores. Among the wounded is Cherry Darling, a dancer whose leg was ripped from her body. As the invalid...

#4
Burden

Burden

2018★ 6.1

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

Ku Klux Klansman Mike Burden opens the Redneck Shop and KKK museum in historic Laurens, SC. He subsequently falls in love with a single mother and, under her influence, quits the K...

#5
The Kindness of Strangers

The Kindness of Strangers

2019★ 6.3

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

Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who get...

#6
Eye of the Needle

Eye of the Needle

1981★ 6.6

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

Great Britain, 1944, during World War II. Relentlessly pursued by several MI5 agents, Henry Faber the Needle, a ruthless German spy in possession of vital information about D-Day, ...

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