Movies like Two Distant Strangers (2020)
The best movies like Two Distant Strangers (2020) are The After (2024), Stutterer (2015) and Anuja (2024). If Two Distant Strangers hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedIf Anything Happens I Love You (2020)7.7/10 from 1,029 votes
- NewestFall Risk (2024)Released 2024
The After (2024)
After losing a family member to a violent crime, a shattered rideshare driver picks up a passenger that forces him to confront his grief.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisStutterer (2015)
A lonely typographer with a cruel speech impediment but an eloquent inner voice must face his greatest fear.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAnuja (2024)
When a brilliant nine-year-old working in a sweatshop gets a chance to attend school, she must make a difficult choice for her and her sister's future.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCurfew (2012)
At the lowest point of his life, Richie gets a call from his estranged sister asking him to look after his nine-year old niece, Sophia, for a few hours.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisIf Anything Happens I Love You (2020)
Grieving parents journey through an emotional void as they mourn the loss of a child after a tragic school shooting.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Neighbors' Window (2019)
The story of a middle-aged woman with small children whose life is shaken up when two free-spirited twenty-somethings move in across the street.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Roof (2023)
After being sent to stay with his grandfather, a Cheyenne teen uncovers a connection to his family and community in a way he never thought possible.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Beautiful, FL (2023)
Determined to win an ice cream competition with a flavor inspired by her late Tia Abuela’s Puerto Rican treats, a teen girl turns to her trailer park neighbors to help figure out the winning recipe.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Inseparable (2007)
When young dad, Joe, discovers he's dying, drifter Charlie is given a unique opportunity to turn his life around. A story of family, identity and starting again.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRed, White and Blue (2024)
A young mother from Arkansas is forced to travel across state lines in search of an urgent and necessary abortion.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Fall Risk (2024)
Set in Los Angeles, a young woman, Dylan, is in and out of the hospital with a life-changing diagnosis, but something isn't right with her partner, Emily. Dylan begins questioning her reality and everyone in it, until her best friend breaks her out of the rehabilitation center to confront the source of the deception.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Come Swim (2017)
COME SWIM is a diptych of one man's day; half impressionist and half realist portraits.
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The Letter Room (2020)
Richard, a lonely and well-meaning prison officer, is put in charge of reading and censoring the letters received by inmates.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAla Kachuu – Take and Run (2020)
A young Kyrgyz woman is kidnapped and forced to marry. A drama about the desire for freedom in the clutches of a tradition.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
American Eid (2021)
A homesick Pakistani immigrant sets out to make Eid a public-school holiday, reconnecting with her older sister and learning to embrace her new home along the way.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Nefta Football Club (2018)
In the south of Tunisia, two football fan brothers bump into a donkey lost in the middle of the desert on the border of Algeria. Strangely, the animal wears headphones over its ears.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Silent Child (2017)
A deaf 4-year-old girl named Libby lives in a world of silence until a caring social worker teaches her to use sign language to communicate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDavid (2020)
David needs help. So does David. A severely depressed man reaches out for an emergency therapy session. He’s not the only one who needs help.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Wake Up (2020)
A woman is forced to rediscover her humanity in an increasingly digital world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Curve (2016)
Clinging to a smooth, curved surface high above a sentient abyss, a woman tries to cover the few feet back to safety without losing purchase and falling to her death.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTimecode (2016)
Timecode is a 2016 Spanish live-action short film directed by Juanjo Giménez. Luna and Diego are the parking lot security guards. Diego does the night shift, and Luna works by day. One day, Luna's boss asks her to investigate a broken tail light. It won the Short Film Palme d'Or award at 69th annual Cannes Film Festival in 2016. It is also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 89th Academy Awards in 2017.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOut of Darkness (2013)
A unique story told by nine different actors which explores the haunting of a conscience by lost souls that won't let go.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Zero (2015)
A boy and his father are emotionally and physically separated on the day earth intermittently loses gravity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Long Goodbye (2021)
A short about racism and Islamophobia in the UK.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAnd So We Put Goldfish in the Pool. (2017)
One summer day, 400 goldfish were found in the swimming pool of a secondary school. This is a story about the four 15-year-old girls who put them there.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Marguerite (2017)
An aging woman and her nurse develop a friendship that inspires her to unearth unacknowledged longing, and thus help her make peace with her past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOther Side of the Box (2018)
A couple receives a mysterious package from an old friend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI Am Easy to Find (2019)
A life in one-hundred-sixty-four moments.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Sister (2018)
A night. A car. Alie is in danger. To get by she must make the most important phone call of her life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMother (2017)
An everyday conversation between Marta and her mother turns into a tragic race against the clock when Marta receives a phone call from Iván, her six-year-old son, who is on holiday in France with his father.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Two Distant Strangers?
The closest matches to Two Distant Strangers are The After (2024), Stutterer (2015) and Anuja (2024). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Two Distant Strangers?
People who watched Two Distant Strangers most often go on to The After (2024), Stutterer (2015) and Anuja (2024).
What is the highest-rated movie like Two Distant Strangers?
If Anything Happens I Love You (2020), rated 7.7/10 by 1,029 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Two Distant Strangers?
Fall Risk (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Two Distant Strangers?
Yes: The After (2024), Stutterer (2015) and Anuja (2024).
How are movies similar to Two Distant Strangers chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Two Distant Strangers, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.