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Movies like Sunrise/Sunset (2011)

The best movies like Sunrise/Sunset (2011) are Edie (2018), Eleanor the Great (2025) and Here (2024). If Sunrise/Sunset hooked you with its drama, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.

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  1. Edie (2018)

    To try and overcome a lifetime of bitterness and resentment, 83-year-old Edie decides that it is never too late. After packing an old camping bag, she leaves her life behind and embarks on an adventure she never got to have... climbing the imposing Mount Suilven in Scotland.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  2. Eleanor the Great (2025)

    94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  3. Here (2024)

    An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  4. All Together Now (2020)

    An optimistic, talented teen clings to a huge secret: she's homeless and living on a school bus. When tragedy strikes, can she learn to accept a helping hand?

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  5. Omaha (2025)

    A young girl and her brother are awoken by their father and loaded into the car on an early morning in 2008. As they road trip across the American West, she discovers the truth about their seemingly spontaneous journey.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  6. Blue Chips (1994)

    Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team isn't winning and he cannot attract new players. The stars of the future are secretly being paid by boosters. This practice is forbidden in the college game, but Pete is desperate and has pressures from all around.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  7. The Last Bus (2021)

    Widower Tom, on the recent passing of his wife Mary, uses his free bus pass to travel the length of Britain from John O'Groats in Caithness to Land's End in Cornwall, their shared birthplace, using only local buses. It's an incident-fuelled nostalgia trip and his encounters with local people make him a media phenomenon. Tom is totally unaware and to his surprise on arrival at Land’s End he’s greeted as a celebrity.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  8. Bennett's War (2019)

    After surviving an IED explosion in combat overseas, a young soldier with the Army Motorcycle Unit is medically discharged with a broken back and leg. Against all odds he trains to make an impossible comeback as a motocross racer in order to support his family.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  9. Lady Driver (2020)

    When a rebellious teen embarks on a solo summer journey to connect with her roots, she finds herself in a new world, geared up for the ride of her life, and discovers she had the drive in her all along.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  10. Hide Your Smiling Faces (2014)

    Tommy and his older brother Eric live in the midst of vast remote forests. The death of their friend pushes them close to the edge. Eric doesn’t know how to channel his energy. All at once, nature’s vastness feels stifling.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  11. The Quiller Memorandum (1966)

    After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigate.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

  12. I Believe in Unicorns (2015)

    Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  13. The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)

    A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a priest, flourishes in his calling as a priest in a more Christian area of the world, Father Chisholm struggles. He encounters hostility, isolation, disease, poverty and a variety of set backs which humble him, but make him more determined than ever to succeed.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  14. The Color of Friendship (2000)

    Mahree Bok lives on a farm in South Africa. Her father is a policeman who cannot hide his joy when activist Steve Biko is caught by the South African authorities. Piper Dellums is the daughter of a US congressman from California and who lives in a nice home in Washington DC. When Mahree is chosen to spend a semester at the Dellums' house, she doesn't expect that her host family would be black. Nor do her hosts suspect that she is not a black South African.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  15. Where the Red Fern Grows (2003)

    Set in the Ozark Mountains during the Great Depression, Billy Coleman works hard and saves his earnings for 2 years to achieve his dream of buying two coonhound pups. He develops a new trust in God as he faces overwhelming challenges in adventure and tragedy roaming the river bottoms of Cherokee country with "Old Dan" and "Little Ann."

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  16. Donovan's Echo (2011)

    A series of uncanny déjà vu events force a man to re-examine his tragic past, memory, instinct, and future.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  17. Return (2011)

    Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  18. Small Things Like These (2024)

    In 1985, while working as a coal merchant to support his family, Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers truths of his own; forcing him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  19. The Adventures of the Wilderness Family (1975)

    The story of a modern family bored with the hassles of the city life in Los Angeles. They head for the wilderness never to return.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

  20. Wonderstruck (2017)

    The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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Frequently asked questions

What are the best movies like Sunrise/Sunset?

The closest matches to Sunrise/Sunset are Edie (2018), Eleanor the Great (2025) and Here (2024). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.

What should I watch after Sunrise/Sunset?

Start with Edie (2018), the closest match to Sunrise/Sunset.

What is the highest-rated movie like Sunrise/Sunset?

All Together Now (2020), rated 6.7/10 by 229 TMDB users.

What is the newest movie like Sunrise/Sunset?

Omaha (2025) is the most recent release on this list.

How are movies similar to Sunrise/Sunset chosen?

First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Sunrise/Sunset, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.

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