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10 Best Movies Like The Wake

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

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#1
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

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

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell....

#2
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020★ 6.2

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

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....

#3
Flashbacks of a Fool

Flashbacks of a Fool

2008★ 6.2

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

An aging Hollywood star, Joe Scott, lives a life of narcissistic hedonism, observed by his laconic personal assistant, Ophelia. The death of his childhood best friend, Boots, takes...

#4
Salomé

Salomé

2013★ 6.2

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

After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his k...

#5
Imperial Dreams

Imperial Dreams

2014★ 6.6

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

A 21-year-old reformed gangster's devotion to his family and his future is put to the test when he is released from prison and returns to his old stomping grounds in Watts, Los Ang...

#6
The Kindness of Strangers

The Kindness of Strangers

2019★ 6.3

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

Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who get...

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