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10 Best Movies Like Waxwing

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

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#1
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

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

#2
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Waxwing 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
The Secret: Dare to Dream

The Secret: Dare to Dream

2020★ 7.3

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

A widow with three children hires a handyman to fix her house during a major storm. When not doing home repairs, he shares his philosophy of believing in the power of the universe ...

#4
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

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

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site ...

#5
Kisses

Kisses

2008★ 7.1

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

Two kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home on Christmas Day and spend a night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin....

#6
On the Edge

On the Edge

2001★ 6.6

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

A suicidal young man is committed to a Dublin psychiatric hospital where he meets new friends who greatly influence his life....

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