15 Movies Like Natural Light

Loved Natural Light? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.

Flags of Our Fathers
#1

Flags of Our Fathers

There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen - John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes - who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Natural Light.

12 Strong
#2

12 Strong

A team of special forces head into Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks in an attempt to dismantle the Taliban.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Natural Light.

Romance of Ida
#3

Romance of Ida

Eighteen year old Ida returns home after being raised by nuns, but her father isn't too pleased. Determined to see her married, he publishes an ad and offers suitors a generous dowry.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Natural Light.

Satantango
#4

Satantango

Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shuttering. Irimias, a villager thought to be dead, returns and, unbeknownst to the locals, is a police informant. In a scheme, he persuades the villagers to form a commune with him.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Natural Light.

Return Ticket
#5

Return Ticket

Five old men and a kid are travelling in a train's cabin without purpose. They travel because it's free and they don't have another place to stay. From their conversations we learn the tragedies of their lives. Also the hidden interlockings of their faith will out slowly.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Natural Light.

The Kill Team
#6

The Kill Team

When Andrew Briggman — a young soldier in the US Army during the invasion of Afghanistan — witnesses the murderous behavior of fellow soldiers, under the direction of a malevolent Sergeant, he faces a moral dilemma. His increasingly-violent platoon becomes suspicious that someone in their ranks has turned on them, and Andrew begins to fear for his safety. A fictionalized dramatization based on a true story.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Natural Light.

The Grey Zone
#7

The Grey Zone

The story of Auschwitz's twelfth Sonderkommando — one of the thirteen consecutive "Special Squads" of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excruciating moral dilemma of assisting in the extermination of fellow Jews in exchange for a few more months of life.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Natural Light.

Cross of Iron
#8

Cross of Iron

It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of the madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and the courageous Corporal Steiner. Stransky is the only man who believes that the Third Reich is still vastly superior to the Russian army. However, within his pompous persona lies a quivering coward who longs for the Iron Cross so that he can return to Berlin a hero. Steiner, on the other hand is cynical, defiantly non-conformist and more concerned with the safety of his own men rather than the horde of military decorations offered to him by his superiors.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Natural Light.

Son of Saul
#9

Son of Saul

In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival trying to save from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son, seeking to give him a proper Jewish burial.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Natural Light.

Birdy
#10

Birdy

Two young men are seriously affected by the Vietnam War. One of them has always been obsessed with birds - but now believes he really is a bird, and has been sent to a mental hospital. Can his friend help him pull through?

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Natural Light.

Dealer
#11

Dealer

A drug dealer spends his day pedaling around Budapest visiting friends and clients.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Natural Light.

Feels Like Home
#12

Feels Like Home

Rita, an ordinary, but lonely woman is kidnapped. Her captors are the Árpáds; they claim she is not called Rita but Szilvi, a runaway from their family. Rita eventually understands that the only way out is in - to escape she must impersonate Szilvi. The more she becomes the lost girl the more she finds out about the family - and understands that her life is on the line.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Natural Light.

Fort Bliss
#13

Fort Bliss

After returning home from an extended tour in Afghanistan, a decorated U.S. Army medic and single mother struggles to rebuild her relationship with her young son.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Natural Light.

Stars of Eger
#14

Stars of Eger

This romantic and grandiose historical film depicts the era of the constant incursions and heroic battles fought by the defenders of the castle of Eger, led by captain István Dobó, against the heavy odds of superior numbers through the lives and love of Bornemissza Gergely and Cecey Éva. Gergely is inaugurated as a fighter already at the age of 7, when he escapes the captivity of the half-eyed Turk, Jumurdzsak, with Vica and the war-booty. In thirty years' time he becomes the first assistant of captain Dobó and the brain of the castle in the defence of Eger.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Natural Light.

Moscow Square
#15

Moscow Square

1989 is an important year in the political history of Hungary. However, Petya and his friends couldn't care less. They are about to graduate high school. The only important things to them are the parties, girls, making some easy cash. And of course, passing the upcoming exam with the leaked questions.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Natural Light.