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10 Best Movies Like Ugly

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

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#1
Radiance

Radiance

2017★ 6.5

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

The story follows the social intercourse between a cameraman, Masaya, with a visual impairment, and Misako who disconnects from the world....

#2
Heavenly Forest

Heavenly Forest

2006★ 7.5

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

Amateur photographer Makoto and the homely but endearing Shizuru meet during their university entrance ceremony and become instant friends. Shy by nature, Makoto finds himself open...

#3
Glory to the Filmmaker!

Glory to the Filmmaker!

2007★ 6.3

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

Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete his latest project....

#4
Achilles and the Tortoise

Achilles and the Tortoise

2008★ 7.0

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

Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting him, de...

#5
My Neighbor Adolf

My Neighbor Adolf

2022★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ugly 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...

#6
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ugly 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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