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10 Best Movies Like Dakota

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

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#1
Boy

Boy

2004★ 5.7

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

Boy is the unsettling story of a young male prostitute, or Rent Boy, in a small rural town who learns the truth behind a hit and run accident which has killed a local girl. When th...

#2
My Friends Act III

My Friends Act III

1985★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dakota for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

This time the "amici" (friends) are just four: Necchi, Meandri, Mascetti and Sassaroli. Nevertheless they are older they still love to spend their time mainly organizing irresistib...

#3
Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade

Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade

2016★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dakota for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A harried prehistoric bird mother entrusts her precious, soon-to-hatch egg to Sid. When she recommends him to her neighbours, business booms at his new egg-sitting service. However...

#4
Windstorm 2

Windstorm 2

2015★ 7.3

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

Summer vacation. Mika is overjoyed to see Windstorm again. But then she discovers strange wounds on the belly of Windstorm, for which no one has an explanation. Yet this is Kaltenb...

#5
Q

Q

1982★ 5.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dakota for fans of Crime. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A fleeing gangland flunky discovers the New York nest of Aztec deity Quetzalcoatl, the man-eating flying serpent....

#6
Tarek's Situation

Tarek's Situation

2006★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dakota for fans of Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Tarek is a young man who is working at a telecommunications company,and he fell in love with a girl when he heard her voice in a radio talk show. A customer of the company he works...