Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 17, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Yama

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

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#1
Ashes in the Snow

Ashes in the Snow

2018★ 6.4

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

The coming-of-age tale of 16-year-old Lina Vilkas who is deported to Siberia amid Stalin's reign of terror in the Baltic region during WWII. An aspiring artist, she secretly docume...

#2
Skin

Skin

2009★ 6.4

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

Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era....

#3
Kisses

Kisses

2008★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Yama 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
The Road Dance

The Road Dance

2022★ 6.7

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

A young girl lives in the Outer Hebrides in a small village in the years just before WWI. Isolated and hard by the shore, her life takes a dramatic change when a terrible tragedy b...

#5
Return

Return

2011★ 6.4

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

Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes....

#6
Return to Peyton Place

Return to Peyton Place

1961★ 6.6

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

Residents of the small town of Peyton Place aren't pleased when they realize they're the characters in local writer Allison MacKenzie's controversial first novel. A sequel to the h...

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