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10 Best Movies Like When Afternoon Falls

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

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#1
Winter Spring Summer or Fall

Winter Spring Summer or Fall

2024★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When Afternoon Falls 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...

#2
The Empty Hours

The Empty Hours

2013★ 6.7

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

Stuck managing his uncle's deserted motel on Veracruz's lonely coast, 17-year-old Sebastian finds solace in unexpected company. Miranda, a beautiful yet seemingly forlorn guest, wh...

#3
Love, Simon

Love, Simon

2018★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When Afternoon Falls for fans of Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Everyone deserves a great love story, but for 17-year-old Simon Spier, it's a little more complicated. He hasn't told his family or friends that he's gay, and he doesn't know the i...

#4
Akron

Akron

2015★ 7.2

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

Benny, a college freshman at the University of Akron, Ohio meets and falls for fellow freshman Christopher at a football game. With the support of their families and friends they e...

#5
Departure

Departure

2016★ 6.4

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

An English mother and her teenage son spend a week preparing the sale of their remote holiday house in the South of France. Fifteen-year-old Elliot struggles with his dawning sexua...

#6
Green Butterflies

Green Butterflies

2017★ 7.1

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

Mateo is an intelligent boy who falls in love with Daniel, but when everyone reveals that relationship, Mateo is at a crossroads, and he will have to decide between fighting his ad...

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