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10 Best Movies Like Awake and Sing!

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

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#1
Come from Away

Come from Away

2021★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Awake and Sing! for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Filmed live on Broadway, the Tony Award-winning musical tells the remarkable true story of 38 flights grounded in a small Canadian town on September 11, 2001. As the locals host th...

#2
Mansfield Park

Mansfield Park

2007★ 6.1

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

Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, where she is treated poorly by most except her cousin Edmund. Her life is complicated by the arrival of the wo...

#3
Helen

Helen

2009★ 6.5

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

On the outside, Helen has it all – a loving family and a successful career – but when her suppressed mental illness resurfaces, the world crumbles around her. Crippled by depressio...

#4
Cradle Will Rock

Cradle Will Rock

1999★ 6.4

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

A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production....

#5
Synecdoche, New York

Synecdoche, New York

2008★ 7.5

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

A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play....

#6
The House of Mirth

The House of Mirth

2000★ 6.2

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

In early 20th century New York City, an impoverished socialite desperately seeks a suitable husband as she gradually finds herself betrayed by her friends and exiled from high soci...

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