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10 Best Movies Like Dreaming Awake

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

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#1
The Ballad of Narayama

The Ballad of Narayama

1983★ 7.5

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

In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their ...

#2
Taboo

Taboo

1999★ 6.5

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

Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of interpersonal conflicts are brewing in t...

#3
Tigertail

Tigertail

2020★ 6.7

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

A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter....

#4
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dreaming Awake 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
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

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

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of gettin...

#6
Glory to the Filmmaker!

Glory to the Filmmaker!

2007★ 6.3

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

Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete his latest project....

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