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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
Norman

Norman

2010★ 6.1

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

A teenager pretends to be dying from cancer as a way to cope with the realities of his daily existence and his father's terminal illness....

#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
My Neighbor Adolf

My Neighbor Adolf

2022★ 6.5

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

South America, 1960. A lonely and grumpy Holocaust survivor convinces himself that his new neighbor is none other than Adolf Hitler. Not being taken seriously, he starts an indepen...

#4
Mindwalk

Mindwalk

1991★ 6.9

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

On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Jack, a failed presidential candidate, Tom, his ex-speechwriter and Sonia, a physicist, engage in an intellectual conversation about poli...

#5
Uncontrollable Circumstances

Uncontrollable Circumstances

1989★ 6.2

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

Philippe and Daniel decide to go on vacation Southeast Asia, where they meet Hans, a European who livesthere and he becomes their guide and host. Once the holidays are over, before...

#6
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

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