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10 Best Movies Like The place before daybreak

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

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#1
Tokyo Family

Tokyo Family

2013★ 7.3

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

An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved....

#2
To the Ends of the Earth

To the Ends of the Earth

2019★ 6.3

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

A young Japanese woman named Yoko finds her cautious and insular nature tested when she travels to Uzbekistan to shoot the latest episode of her travel variety show....

#3
Café Lumière

Café Lumière

2004★ 6.7

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

In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a writer investigating the life of a modernist composer of the 1930s. She is pregna...

#4
Shara

Shara

2003★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The place before daybreak 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...

#5
It Feels So Good

It Feels So Good

2019★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The place before daybreak 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 ...

#6
Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius

Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius

2004★ 5.9

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

The story of golf icon and legend, Bobby Jones, who retired from competition at the tender age of 28....

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