Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 15, 2026

10 Best Movies Like When the Sun Sets

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

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#1
Skin

Skin

2009★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When the Sun Sets for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era....

#2
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When the Sun Sets for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#3
El Chicano

El Chicano

2019★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When the Sun Sets for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law....

#4
Kisses

Kisses

2008★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When the Sun Sets for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Two kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home on Christmas Day and spend a night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin....

#5
Disgrace

Disgrace

2008★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When the Sun Sets for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Disgrace is the story of a South African professor of English who loses everything: his reputation, his job, his peace of mind, his good looks, his dreams of artistic success, and ...

#6
Electricity

Electricity

2014★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When the Sun Sets for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A woman leaves her seaside hometown to search for her long-lost brother, experiencing hallucinations brought on by her epilepsy during her trip....

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