Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 12, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Yesterday

If you loved Yesterday, 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 Yesterday 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
Endgame

Endgame

2009★ 5.8

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

The time is the late '80s, a crucial period in the history of South Africa. President P.W. Botha is hanging on to power by a thread as the African National Congress (ANC) takes up ...

#3
Cry Freedom

Cry Freedom

1987★ 7.0

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

A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods is a white liberal journalist...

#4
The Road Dance

The Road Dance

2022★ 6.7

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

A young girl lives in the Outer Hebrides in a small village in the years just before WWI. Isolated and hard by the shore, her life takes a dramatic change when a terrible tragedy b...

#5
Burden

Burden

2018★ 6.1

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

Ku Klux Klansman Mike Burden opens the Redneck Shop and KKK museum in historic Laurens, SC. He subsequently falls in love with a single mother and, under her influence, quits the K...

#6
The 33

The 33

2015★ 6.4

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

Based on the true story of the collapse of a mine in San Jose, Chile—that left 33 miners isolated underground for 69 days....

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