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10 Best Movies Like The Eighth Day

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

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#1
An Act of Defiance

An Act of Defiance

2017★ 6.6

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

Apartheid is rampant in South Africa, 1963. When ten men are arrested on a farm in Rivonia for conspiring to commit sabotage and violent acts against the repressive S. African gove...

#2
Pepe

Pepe

2024★ 5.8

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

A voice that claims to be from a hippopotamus. A voice that doesn’t understand the perception of time. Pepe, the first and last hippo killed in the Americas, tells his story with ...

#3
Someone I Loved

Someone I Loved

2009★ 6.1

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

One night, Pierre decides to reveal his painful secret to his daughter-in-law, who's just been abandoned by her husband. Pierre's secret is about his secret love to Mathilde, the w...

#4
The Good Heart

The Good Heart

2009★ 6.4

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

Jacques is the curmudgeonly owner of a gritty New York dive bar that serves as home to a motley assortment of professional drinkers. Jacques is determinedly drinking and smoking hi...

#5
Toto the Hero

Toto the Hero

1991★ 7.0

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

80-year-old Thomas recounts his childhood and middle age through a series of flashbacks and dream sequences. Thomas believes he’s been taken away from a better life at birth; follo...

#6
The Two of Us

The Two of Us

1967★ 7.6

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

A story of the caring friendship formed between a crusty, old anti-Semite and an eight-year-old Jewish boy who goes to live with him during World War II....