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10 Best Movies Like Evil Does Not Exist

If you loved Evil Does Not Exist, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Tokyo Family

Tokyo Family

2013★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Evil Does Not Exist for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved....

#2
The Taste of Tea

The Taste of Tea

2004★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Evil Does Not Exist for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film project. Uncle Ayano, a successful mu...

#3
Wood Job!

Wood Job!

2014★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Evil Does Not Exist for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

After failing his university entrance exam, Yuki Hirano sets his eyes on the role of a forestry trainee. Setting off for training he doubts his decision many times, but eventually ...

#4
The Ballad of Narayama

The Ballad of Narayama

1983★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Evil Does Not Exist 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 ...

#5
Café Lumière

Café Lumière

2004★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Evil Does Not Exist for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a writer investigating the life of a modernist composer of the 1930s. She is pregna...

#6
Only Yesterday

Only Yesterday

1991★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Evil Does Not Exist for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In lyrical switches between the present and the past, Taeko contemplates the arc of her life, and wonders if she has been true to the dreams of her childhood self....

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