
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.

An Act of Defiance
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...

Pepe
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 ...

Someone I Loved
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...

The Good Heart
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...

Toto the Hero
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...

The Two of Us
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....