Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 14, 2026

10 Best Movies Like The Longing

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

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#1
Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything

Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything

2023★ 5.8

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

Set in a warm summer in 1990 in former East Germany, it follows a young woman who begins a relationship with a charismatic farmer who is twice her age....

#2
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

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

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

#3
The German Lesson

The German Lesson

2019★ 6.5

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

In a small North German village a drama played out during and shortly after the Second World War about duty versus individual conscience and morality....

#4
Goodbye June

Goodbye June

2025★ 6.7

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

Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season....

#5
Tigertail

Tigertail

2020★ 6.7

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

A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter....

#6
Bastard Out of Carolina

Bastard Out of Carolina

1996★ 7.2

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

A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer a...

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