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10 Best Movies Like Wake

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

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#1
Seven Minutes in Heaven

Seven Minutes in Heaven

1986★ 6.0

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

Natalie allows her classmate Jeff, who has run away from home, to stay at her place while her father is away on a business trip. Natalie soon starts dating Jeff's friend James Case...

#2
Restless

Restless

2011★ 6.5

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

Two outsiders, both shaped by the circumstances that have brought them together, forge a deep and lasting love....

#3
Mr. Church

Mr. Church

2016★ 7.4

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

A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fift...

#4
Past Lives

Past Lives

2023★ 7.7

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

After decades apart, childhood friends Nora and Hae Sung are reunited in New York for one fateful weekend as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a lif...

#5
Hotel Chevalier

Hotel Chevalier

2007★ 6.9

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

In a Paris hotel room, Jack Whitman lies on a bed. His phone rings; it's a woman on her way to see him, a surprise. She arrives and the complications of their relationship emerge i...

#6
Friends with Kids

Friends with Kids

2012★ 6.0

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

In the wake of their friends' marriages and eventual offspring, longtime pals Julie and Jason decide to have a child together without becoming a couple. By becoming "time-share" pa...

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