Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 16, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Hanabi

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

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#1
Summer Palace

Summer Palace

2006★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hanabi 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 ...

#2
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020★ 6.2

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

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....

#3
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hanabi 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...

#4
American Dreams in China

American Dreams in China

2013★ 6.8

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

Three Chinese friends build a successful English language school to help Chinese teenagers fulfil their dreams....

#5
Scandalous Sex

Scandalous Sex

2004★ 6.9

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

A daughter seeks to restore the reputation of her disgraced father, a wronged college professor. With help of a professional student, she must overcome an ambitious sorority bitch ...

#6
Upstream

Upstream

2024★ 6.8

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

A moment of impulsiveness turns Gao Zhilei into a "stay-at-home" individual, but he never expected his life to take a turn in the opposite direction. A series of changes compel him...

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