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10 Best Movies Like The Night Buffalo

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

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#1
David and Lisa

David and Lisa

1962★ 7.2

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

Teenager David Clemens develops a hysterical fear that he will die if he comes into physical contact with another person. Perturbed, David's overbearing mother places him in a home...

#2
Lilith

Lilith

1964★ 6.4

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

Vincent Bruce, a war veteran, begins working as an occupational therapist at Poplar Lodge, a private psychiatric facility for wealthy people where he meets Lilith Arthur, a charmin...

#3
Purple Rain

Purple Rain

1984★ 6.7

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

A victim of his own anger, the Kid is a Minneapolis musician on the rise with his band, the Revolution, escaping a tumultuous home life through music. While trying to avoid making ...

#4
Neverwas

Neverwas

2005★ 6.4

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

Zach Riley is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, Millwood. What he doesn't reveal at the time o...

#5
Your Fault

Your Fault

2024★ 7.1

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

The love between Noah and Nick seems unwavering despite their parents' attempts to separate them. But his job and her entry into college open up their lives to new relationships th...

#6
The Last Word

The Last Word

2008★ 5.8

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

An odd-but-gifted poet, Evan Merck makes his living writing suicide notes for the soon-to-be departed. So when he meets Charlotte, the free-spirited sister of his latest client, Ev...

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