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10 Best Movies Like The Hourglass

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

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#1
The Trials of Cate McCall

The Trials of Cate McCall

2013★ 6.4

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

In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicte...

#2
Bergman Island

Bergman Island

2021★ 6.3

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

An English-German filmmaking couple retreat to Fårö for the summer to each write screenplays for their upcoming films in an act of pilgrimage to the place that inspired Ingmar Berg...

#3
The Hunt

The Hunt

2012★ 8.1

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

A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son’s custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck i...

#4
BUtterfield 8

BUtterfield 8

1960★ 6.2

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

Gloria Wandrous, a promiscuous fashion model, falls in love with Weston Liggett, the hard drinking son of a working class family who has married into money....

#5
The Absent One

The Absent One

2014★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Hourglass for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Denmark, 2014. A former police officer asks Carl Mørck, head of Department Q, to find out who brutally killed his young twins in 1994. Although a local inhabitant confessed and was...

#6
Winter Spring Summer or Fall

Winter Spring Summer or Fall

2024★ 7.2

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

Remi and Barnes, two very different teenagers, meet by chance in the winter of their senior year, then spend four days together over the course of a year that will change their li...

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