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10 Best Movies Like When You Wake Up

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

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#1
Suburbia

Suburbia

1984★ 6.7

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

When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like...

#2
Tigertail

Tigertail

2020★ 6.7

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

A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter....

#3
Kisses

Kisses

2008★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When You Wake Up 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....

#4
Salomé

Salomé

2013★ 6.2

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

After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his k...

#5
Still Breathing

Still Breathing

1997★ 6.4

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

Two lost souls: she a con-artist in L.A.; he a puppeteer in San Antonio have the same dream linking each with the other. He travels to L.A. to find this woman he has become obsesse...

#6
Out of the Blue

Out of the Blue

1981★ 6.9

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

A young girl whose father is an ex-convict and whose mother is a junkie finds it difficult to conform and tries to find comfort in a quirky combination of Elvis and the punk scene....

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