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10 Best Movies Like The Ways

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

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#1
9

9

2009★ 6.9

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

When 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world. All humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him takin...

#2
Sleeper

Sleeper

1973★ 6.9

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

Miles Monroe, a clarinet-playing health food store proprietor, is revived out of cryostasis 200 years into a future world in order to help rebels fight an oppressive government reg...

#3
Upside Down

Upside Down

2012★ 6.3

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

In an alternate universe where twinned worlds have opposite gravities, a young man battles interplanetary prejudice and the laws of physics in his quest to reunite with the long-lo...

#4
Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder

Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder

2009★ 7.1

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

Leela becomes an outlaw when she and a group of ecologically-minded feminists attempt to save an asteroid of primitive life forms and the Violet Dwarf star from being destroyed, wh...

#5
Regular Show: The Movie

Regular Show: The Movie

2015★ 7.9

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

After a high school lab experiment goes horribly wrong, Mordecai and Rigby must go back in time to battle an evil volleyball coach in order to save the universe — and their friends...

#6
Dark Star

Dark Star

1974★ 6.0

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

A group of scientists are sent on a mission to destroy unstable planets. Twenty years into their mission, they have to battle their alien mascot as well as a "sensitive" and intell...

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