Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 16, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Daybreak

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

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#1
What Time Is It There?

What Time Is It There?

2001★ 7.0

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

A street vendor with a grim home-life forges a connection with a young woman on her way to Paris....

#2
Caught by the Tides

Caught by the Tides

2025★ 6.8

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

Years after her boyfriend left her for the big city and promised to bring her there after he’s settled down, a Chinese woman sets out on a journey to be reunited with him....

#3
One Second

One Second

2020★ 7.3

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

A movie fan escapes from a labour camp during the Chinese Cultural Revolution and strikes up a relationship with a homeless female vagabond....

#4
Summer Palace

Summer Palace

2006★ 7.3

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

Yu Hong leaves her home village and starts university in Beijing, where she develops a consuming and compulsive relationship with another student. The student riots from 1989 then ...

#5
Under the Hawthorn Tree

Under the Hawthorn Tree

2010★ 7.8

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

The daughter of a right-winger, schoolgirl Jing Qiu is sent to the countryside for reeducation, and tasked to help write a textbook. There she meets Lao San, a young soldier with a...

#6
Dangerous Liaisons

Dangerous Liaisons

2012★ 5.9

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

Dangerous Liaisons is a Chinese film by Hur Jin-ho based on the novel with the same title by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos....

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