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10 Best Movies Like Yaaba

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

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#1
Diamond Island

Diamond Island

2016★ 7.1

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

Bora, an 18-year-old, leaves his village to work on the construction sites of Diamond Island, a project for an ultra-modern paradise for the rich and a symbol of tomorrow’s Cambodi...

#2
The Hitch-Hiker

The Hitch-Hiker

1953★ 6.8

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

Roy and Gilbert's fishing trip takes a terrifying turn when the hitchhiker they pick up turns out to be a sociopath on the run from the law. He's killed before, and he lets the two...

#3
Les Insaisissables

Les Insaisissables

2000★ 5.4

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

Romain, a well read and articulate real estate agent, protects his grandmother from a bailiff that wants to seize her property,...

#4
21 Jump Street

21 Jump Street

2012★ 6.9

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

When cops Schmidt and Jenko join the secret Jump Street unit, they use their youthful appearances to go undercover as high school students. They trade in their guns and badges for ...

#5
Monkey Business

Monkey Business

1952★ 6.7

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

Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours th...

#6
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

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

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....