Movies like This Is the Night (2021)
The best movies like This Is the Night (2021) are A Stormy Night (2020), The Mattachine Family (2023) and Last Night in Rozzie (2021). If This Is the Night hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe End of the Tour (2015)7.0/10 from 642 votes
- NewestHot Milk (2025)Released 2025
A Stormy Night (2020)
When a heavy storm threatens the city of New York, two complete strangers –a cynical documentary filmmaker from Spain and an idealist app programmer– find themselves sharing shelter, questioning each other’s understanding of life, happiness and love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Mattachine Family (2023)
While Thomas and Oscar are very much in love, after their first foster child returns to his birth mother, they find that they have different ideas about what making a family actually means.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Last Night in Rozzie (2021)
When a New York lawyer returns to his Boston hometown to reunite his dying friend with his young son, he is forced to finally confront a childhood trauma.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
All Day and a Night (2020)
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLife Is Hot in Cracktown (2009)
Various stories of how crack cocaine has infiltrated the inner-city streets. Based on Buddy Giovinazzo's novel "Life is Hot in Cracktown".
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Only Living Boy in New York (2017)
When a young man learns that his overbearing father is having an affair, he tries to stop it, only to be seduced by the older woman as well.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe End of the Tour (2015)
The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest.'
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGolden Exits (2018)
An intersectional narrative of two families in Brooklyn and the unraveling of unspoken unhappiness that occurs when a young foreign girl spending time abroad upsets the balance on both sides.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisAvenues (2019)
On his 25th birthday, following the death of his brother, Max and his best friend Peter wander the wintry streets of Manhattan, contemplating life, livelihood, and what it means to be adult.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Naz & Maalik (2015)
Two closeted Muslim teens hawk goods across Brooklyn and struggle to come clean about their sexuality, as their secretive behavior leads them unknowingly into the cross-hairs of the War on Terror.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Paterno (2018)
After becoming the winningest coach in college football history, Joe Paterno is embroiled in Penn State's Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal, challenging his legacy and forcing him to face questions of institutional failure regarding the victims.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHot Summer Nights (2018)
In 1991, a sheltered teenager comes of age during a wild summer on Cape Cod, getting rich from selling pot to gangsters, falling in love for the first time, partying, and eventually realizing that he's in way over his head.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBen Is Back (2018)
19-year-old Ben Burns unexpectedly returns home to his family's suburban home on Christmas Eve morning. Ben's mother, Holly, is relieved and welcoming but wary of her son staying clean. Over a turbulent 24 hours, new truths are revealed, and a mother's undying love for her son is tested as she does everything in her power to keep him safe.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHousehold Saints (1993)
A chronicle of three generations of Italian-American women struggling to get by in post-World War II New York’s Little Italy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
I Am Michael (2015)
The controversial true story of a gay activist who rejects his homosexuality and becomes a Christian pastor.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisSophie and the Rising Sun (2016)
In a small Southern town in the autumn of 1941, Sophie’s lonely life is transformed when an Asian man arrives under mysterious circumstances. Their love affair becomes the lightning rod for long-buried conflicts that erupt in bigotry and violence with the outbreak of World War ll.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Boys in the Band (2020)
At a birthday party in 1968 New York, a surprise guest and a drunken game leave seven gay friends reckoning with unspoken feelings and buried truths.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHot Milk (2025)
Rose and her daughter Sofia travel to the Spanish seaside town of Almería to consult with the shamanic Dr. Gomez, a physician who could possibly hold the cure to Rose’s mystery illness, which has left her bound to a wheelchair. But in the sultry atmosphere of this sun-bleached town Sofia, who has been trapped by her mother’s illness all her life, finally starts to shed her inhibitions, enticed by the persuasive charms of enigmatic traveller Ingrid.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisChuck (2017)
A drama inspired by the life of heavyweight boxer Chuck Wepner.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLow Down (2014)
The daughter of jazz pianist Joe Albany witnesses her beloved father's struggle -- and failure -- to kick his heroin habit.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisDriveways (2020)
Eight-year-old Cody is spending the summer in an unfamiliar setting with his mom Kathy. Though he can't relate to the neighbourhood kids, things take an unexpected turn when he develops an unusual friendship with the widowed old man from next door.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBeast Beast (2021)
A look at the lives and trauma surrounding three people living in a southern town.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Gun Hill Road (2011)
An ex-con returns home to the Bronx after three year in prison to discover his wife estranged and his teenage son exploring a sexual transformation that will put the fragile bonds of their family to the test.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Last Call (2020)
Last Call follows a suicidal alcoholic on the anniversary of his son’s death. When he attempts to call a crisis hotline, a misdial connects him with a single mother working as the night janitor at a local community college.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Kid Cannabis (2014)
An eighteen year old high school drop out and his twenty-seven year old friend start trafficking marijuana across the border of Canada in order to make money and their lives are changed forever.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMean Streets (1973)
A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHands of Stone (2016)
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisImperial Dreams (2014)
A 21-year-old reformed gangster's devotion to his family and his future is put to the test when he is released from prison and returns to his old stomping grounds in Watts, Los Angeles.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJawbone (2017)
A former youth boxing champion, Jimmy McCabe is a man in search of hope but looking in all the wrong places. When he hits rock bottom he turns to his childhood boxing club and the only family he has left: gym owner Bill corner man Eddie and promoter Joe. Back in training, years after anyone thought he was a contender, he risks his life, as he tries to stand tall and regain his place in the world.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJungleland (2020)
Stanley manages his boxer brother Lion but when a devastating loss in the ring leaves the pair in debt, an opportunity to recoup the cash leads to a series of misadventures that threaten to break the bond between them.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like This Is the Night?
The closest matches to This Is the Night are A Stormy Night (2020), The Mattachine Family (2023) and Last Night in Rozzie (2021). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after This Is the Night?
People who watched This Is the Night most often go on to A Stormy Night (2020), The Mattachine Family (2023) and Last Night in Rozzie (2021).
What is the highest-rated movie like This Is the Night?
The End of the Tour (2015), rated 7.0/10 by 642 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like This Is the Night?
Hot Milk (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like This Is the Night?
Yes: A Stormy Night (2020), The Mattachine Family (2023) and Last Night in Rozzie (2021).
How are movies similar to This Is the Night chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside This Is the Night, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.