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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
The Cat

The Cat

2011★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Wake for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

So-yeon suffers from claustrophobia and inherits a Persian cat when its owner dies. She begins having nightmares and people around her begin dying as she searches for the truth....

#2
The Silence

The Silence

1963★ 7.5

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

Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic i...

#3
Bill Burr Presents: Friends Who Kill

Bill Burr Presents: Friends Who Kill

2022★ 5.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Wake for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

In a night of killer comedy, Bill Burr hosts a showcase of his most raucous stand-up comic pals as they riff on everything from COVID to Michael Jackson....

#4
Sicario

Sicario

2015★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Wake for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico....

#5
Twin Peaks

Twin Peaks

1989★ 8.5

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

An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks. (This standalone version of the series pilot was produced for...

#6
Head Over Heels 2

Head Over Heels 2

2012★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Wake for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Alice owns a network of sex shops and workaholic who, in trying to reconcile the harsh routine of work and family life, suffers nervous breakdown, she is forced by her husband to g...