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10 Best Movies Like Applause

If you loved Applause, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Norman

Norman

2010★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Applause for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A teenager pretends to be dying from cancer as a way to cope with the realities of his daily existence and his father's terminal illness....

#2
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Applause for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

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....

#3
Hungry Hearts

Hungry Hearts

2015★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Applause for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance....

#4
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Applause for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#5
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Applause for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell....

#6
Salomé

Salomé

2013★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Applause for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his k...

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