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10 Best Movies Like Spring Awakens

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

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#1
The Best of Me

The Best of Me

2014★ 7.5

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

A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown....

#2
Only Yesterday

Only Yesterday

1991★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Spring Awakens 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....

#3
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Rikka Version

Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Rikka Version

2013★ 7.2

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

Summary of the first season of the show, as seen from Rikka's perspective with new elements....

#4
Tamako in Moratorium

Tamako in Moratorium

2013★ 6.0

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

Tamako graduated from a university in Tokyo, but she now lives with her father back in Kofu. Tamako doesn't help her father or tries to get a job. She spends her time just eating a...

#5
Skin

Skin

2009★ 6.4

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

Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era....

#6
Farming

Farming

2018★ 6.2

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

Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Ins...

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