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10 Best Movies Like Night's Tightrope

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

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#1
Key of Life

Key of Life

2012★ 7.6

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

A failed actor switches identities with a stranger at a bath house thinking it is his way out of his life of misery but only to find himself filling the shoes of an elite assassin....

#2
Route 225

Route 225

2006★ 6.0

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

Two kids, fourteen-year-old Eriko and her thirteen-year-old brother Daigo, suddenly find themselves trapped in a parallel universe. Most things are the same as in their own world, ...

#3
The Taste of Tea

The Taste of Tea

2004★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Night's Tightrope 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...

#4
Bitter Sweet

Bitter Sweet

2016★ 5.8

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

Maki, a creative executive with a deep-seated loathing for vegetables, meets Nagisa, a closeted gay vegetarian with amazing cooking skills and they end up as roommates. Being compl...

#5
Hello

Hello

2013★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Night's Tightrope for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

I wouldn't answer if I were you' Hello is the story of a young lady who falls prey to an evil killer.. alone in her apartment, eagerly awaiting the return of her boyfriend, the pho...

#6
Panda

Panda

2014★ 6.5

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

Two teenagers are playing by night in a dirty parking lot. After they are driving on an empty road, they start to tease each other on the way to the sea, but they seem to be too yo...