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10 Best Movies Like Winter Light

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

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#1
The Silence

The Silence

1963★ 7.5

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

Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic i...

#2
Papusza

Papusza

2013★ 7.8

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

The rise and fall of the most distinguished Polish-Gypsy poetess Bronislawa Wajs, widely known as Papusza, and her relationship with her discoverer, writer Jerzy Ficowski....

#3
The Touch

The Touch

1971★ 5.8

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

A Swedish housewife begins an adulterous affair with an American archaeologist, unaware of his emotional scars as a Holocaust survivor; consequently, their relationship will be pai...

#4
Trance

Trance

2006★ 6.1

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

Sonia, a girl from St. Petersburg, decides to seek a better life in Western Europe. She first gets a job at a car dealer in Germany. But she is suddenly kidnapped and sold into sex...

#5
Winstanley

Winstanley

1975★ 7.5

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

Gerrard Winstanley is the leader of a 17th Century religious group that believes the land should be owned communally. His convictions bring him into conflict with both the state an...

#6
Swing Girls

Swing Girls

2004★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Winter Light for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A tale of delinquent and lazy school girls. In their efforts to cut remedial summer math class, they end up poisoning and replacing the school's brass band....