10 Best Movies Like Awakenings
If you loved Awakenings, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Awakenings for fans of Romance. It captures a similar heartwarming atmosphere.
A film director fades away from the industry after the failed love with the heroine of his movie. After being rehabilitated, he learns that some people conspired his fall and decid...

Dune
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Awakenings for fans of Mystery. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
Sounds as witnesses. They blurr into memories, half-dreams, it is undecided if they are real or not. A fluctuation between imagination and reality....

Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Awakenings for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
This is the very first silent slapstick comedy short about adventures of Worldly, Coward, and Fool. What's more fun: fishing with worms, or dynamite? Three friends decided to have ...

SeX
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Awakenings for fans of Sci-Fi. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
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The Last Repair Shop
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Awakenings for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
In a warehouse in the heart of Los Angeles, a dwindling handful of devoted craftspeople maintain more than 80,000 student musical instruments, the largest remaining workshop in Ame...

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Awakenings for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power a...