Movies like When Night Is Falling (1995)
The best movies like When Night Is Falling (1995) are A Perfect Ending (2012), I Can't Think Straight (2008) and Bloomington (2010). If When Night Is Falling hooked you with its drama and romance, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedImagine Me & You (2006)7.6/10 from 1,153 votes
- NewestOutside (2021)Released 2021
A Perfect Ending (2012)
This intimate drama follows Rebecca, a woman who has kept her sexuality a secret from her friends but chooses to reveal it to a stranger. While Rebecca's revelations may not yield the results she expects, a perfect ending is still in reach.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI Can't Think Straight (2008)
Tala, a London-based Palestinian, is preparing for her elaborate Middle Eastern wedding when she meets Leyla, a young British Indian woman who is dating her best friend. Spirited Christian Tala and shy Muslim Leyla could not be more different from each other, but the attraction is immediate and goes deeper than friendship. But Tala is not ready to accept the implications of the choice her heart has made for her and escapes back to Jordan, while Leyla tries to move on with her new-found life, to the shock of her tradition-loving parents. As Tala's wedding day approaches, simmering tensions come to boiling point and the pressure mounts for Tala to be true to herself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBloomington (2010)
A former child actress attends college in search of independence and ends up becoming romantically involved with a female professor. Their relationship thrives until an opportunity to return to acting forces her to make life-altering decisions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLesbians in Uniforms (1983)
Two high school girls discover the pleasure of sex with each other until one of them chooses to be with a boy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Outside (2021)
Set in Seattle, OUTSIDE examines the intersection of two lives: Ramzi, an agoraphobic young artist living a hermetic existence in his downtown apartment, and Ana, a lonely undergrad moonlighting as an escort as they begin an unlikely friendship and romance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Love & Human Remains (1994)
In a Canadian metropolis, failed actor David shares a place with the bookish Candy, whom he dated before coming out as gay. While David, who now waits tables, pursues an aimless romance with a younger coworker, Candy dabbles in both same-sex and heterosexual affairs. As David and Candy's odd assortment of friends — including a telepathic sex worker and an ill-tempered yuppie — pass in and out of their beds, a serial murder stalks the city's women.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe World Unseen (2007)
A drama centered on two women who engage in a dangerous relationship during South Africa's apartheid era.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisItty Bitty Titty Committee (2007)
High School grad and all American gal, Anna, finds her purpose and herself after she hooks up with the radical feminists in The Itty Bitty Titty Committee.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Skinny (2012)
Five black Brown University classmates, four gay men and a lesbian, reunite in New York City for a weekend of fun, sins, secrets, lies and drama.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
The World to Come (2021)
In 1856, two women forge a close connection despite their isolation on the American frontier.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWith Every Heartbeat (2011)
After they meet at their parent's engagement party, Mia and Frida are intrigued by and attracted to one another, despite Mia's own upcoming engagement to Tim. Mia must decide whether to continue her life with Tim or to follow her heart with Frida.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDaphne (2007)
Set during the years between the "Rebecca" trial and the writing of Du Maurier's short story "The Birds", including her relationship with her husband Frederick 'Boy' Browning, and her largely unrequited infatuations with American publishing tycoon's wife Ellen Doubleday and the actress Gertrude Lawrence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Loving Annabelle (2007)
Annabelle is the wise-beyond-her-years newcomer to an exclusive Catholic girls school. Having been expelled from her first two schools she's bound to stir some trouble. Sparks fly though when sexual chemistry appears between her and the Head of her dorm and English teacher, Simone Bradley. Annabelle pursues her relentlessly and until the end the older woman manages to avoid the law.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCircumstance (2011)
A wealthy Iranian family struggles to contain a teenager's growing sexual rebellion and her brother's newfound conservatism.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Woman's Love (2001)
Jeanne attends the birthday party of a friend of her husband. There she meets a dancer named Marie and there is instant chemistry between them. Jeanne falls for Marie and they embark on an extramarital affair.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Desert Hearts (1985)
While waiting for her divorce papers, a repressed literature professor finds herself unexpectedly attracted by a carefree, spirited young woman named Cay.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTwo of Us (2020)
Nina and Madeleine have been sharing their lives and the landing between their two apartments for decades. After more than 20 years of loving in the shadows, Madeleine promises Nina she will tell her family the truth. It takes an unexpected event to show her the importance of living your truth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMom + Mom (2018)
Karole and Ali love each other and dream of starting a family together. They soon realize it won't be as simple as they'd hoped, and as their enthusiasm falters their love is challenged. In order to overcome the obstacles, they must believe in the power of their desire and support of their loved ones. If they can do that, miracles will happen…
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Imagine Me & You (2006)
During her wedding ceremony, Rachel notices Luce in the audience and feels instantly drawn to her. The two women become close friends, and when Rachel learns that Luce is a lesbian, she realizes that despite her happy marriage to Heck, she is falling for Luce. As she questions her sexual orientation, Rachel must decide between her stable relationship with Heck and her exhilarating new romance with Luce.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDisobedience (2018)
New York photographer Ronit flies to London after learning about the death of her estranged father. Ronit is returning to the same Orthodox Jewish community that shunned her decades earlier for her childhood attraction to Esti, a female friend. Their fortuitous and happy reunion soon reignites their burning passion as the two women explore the boundaries of faith and sexuality.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Purple Sea (2009)
Nothing - not her father, not the church - can stop unruly Angela from being with her childhood best friend turned great love, Sara. Based on a true story, Viola di Mare, presents a uniquely engaging portrait of family, community and gender roles in a 19th century Italian village.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFreeheld (2015)
New Jersey car mechanic Stacie Andree and her police detective girlfriend Laurel Hester both battle to secure Hester's pension benefits after she was diagnosed with a terminal illness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLianna (1983)
Lianna's life is a succession of domestic errands and boring faculty parties, however her heaviest cross to bear is dealing with her waning marriage to Dick. In order to find intellectual stimulus, Lianna takes a college extension child-psychology course taught by Ruth. When Lianna catches Dick having an affair with a young coed, she finds comfort and eventually true love in the arms of Ruth. However, this comes with a price as everything in her life is turned upside down.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
My Days of Mercy (2018)
The daughter of a man on death row falls in love with a woman on the opposing side of her family's political cause.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCarmen & Lola (2018)
Carmen is a gypsy teenager, destined to live a life that is repeated every generation: getting married and raising as many children as possible. But one day she meets Lola, an uncommon gypsy who dreams about going to university, does graffiti and is very different. Carmen quickly develops a complicity with Lola and discovers a world that, inevitably, leads them to be rejected by their families.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLost and Delirious (2001)
After starting at an upmarket boarding school, a teenage girl forms close friendships with her two older roommates. However, when she discovers that her new friends are lovers she finds herself caught in a complicated situation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNina's Heavenly Delights (2006)
A feisty young woman returns to Glasgow to run her deceased father's curry house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (1995)
An adventurous love story between two young women of different social and economic backgrounds who find themselves going through all the typical struggles of a new romance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTell It to the Bees (2019)
Dr. Jean Markham returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father's medical practice. When a school-yard scuffle lands Charlie in her surgery, she invites him to visit the hives in her garden and tell his secrets to the bees, as she once did. The new friendship between the boy and the bee keeper brings his mother Lydia into Jean's world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSummertime (2015)
In 1971, a young woman moves from the French countryside to Paris and begins a passionate love affair with a feminist leader.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like When Night Is Falling?
The closest matches to When Night Is Falling are A Perfect Ending (2012), I Can't Think Straight (2008) and Bloomington (2010). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after When Night Is Falling?
People who watched When Night Is Falling most often go on to A Perfect Ending (2012), I Can't Think Straight (2008) and Bloomington (2010).
What is the highest-rated movie like When Night Is Falling?
Imagine Me & You (2006), rated 7.6/10 by 1,153 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like When Night Is Falling?
Outside (2021) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like When Night Is Falling?
Yes: A Perfect Ending (2012), I Can't Think Straight (2008) and Bloomington (2010).
How are movies similar to When Night Is Falling chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside When Night Is Falling, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.