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10 Best Movies Like Sad Vacation

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

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#1
Almost Friends

Almost Friends

2017★ 6.3

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

A man in his mid-20s, still living at home with his mother and stepfather, puts all his eggs in one basket: the girl who works at his local coffee shop. The problem is, she has a s...

#2
Shara

Shara

2003★ 6.4

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

The Aso family live in the old town of Nara. One Day, Kei, one of the Aso's twin boys suddenly disappears. Five years later seventeen-year old Shun, the remaining twin, is an art s...

#3
It Feels So Good

It Feels So Good

2019★ 6.5

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

When it rains it pours. Kenji divorced his wife, lost his job and his old squeeze Naoko is getting married back home in the north of Japan, specifically in Akita. He returns there ...

#4
Harmonium

Harmonium

2016★ 6.6

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

Toshio hires Yasaka to work in his workshop. But then this old acquaintance, who has just been released from prison, begins to meddle in Toshio's family life....

#5
Hana & Alice

Hana & Alice

2004★ 7.0

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

Two teenage best pals attracted to the same boy end up scrambling his life after he walks into a door and is knocked unconscious....

#6
Tigertail

Tigertail

2020★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sad Vacation 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....

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