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10 Best Movies Like Poetry

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

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#1
Oasis

Oasis

2002★ 7.7

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

A young man released from prison visits the widow of the man he killed drunk-driving and becomes infatuated with his cerebral palsy-stricken daughter....

#2
Better Luck Tomorrow

Better Luck Tomorrow

2002★ 6.3

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

A group of over-achieving Asian-American high school seniors enjoy a power trip when they dip into extra-curricular criminal activities....

#3
Song of the Exile

Song of the Exile

1990★ 7.5

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

Set in the early 1970s, it tells the story of a Chinese-Japanese student who returns to her native Hong Kong after graduating from a university in London. Once she arrives back hom...

#4
Icaros: A Vision

Icaros: A Vision

2017★ 6.4

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

In search of a miracle, an American woman embarks on a journey to the Peruvian Amazon and finds hope in a community, through rituals involving an ancient psychedelic plant known as...

#5
Class Enemy

Class Enemy

2013★ 6.7

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

Relations between the students and the new teacher of German are extremely tense. When one female student commits suicide, her schoolmates blame the teacher for her death. An aware...

#6
Black★Rock Shooter

Black★Rock Shooter

2010★ 6.1

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

The story of two girls bound in friendship, as well as Black Rock Star's struggle unfolding in another world. But when the two worlds come together... what will happen?...