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10 Best Movies Like Yearn For

If you loved Yearn For, 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 Yearn For 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
Benjamin

Benjamin

2019★ 6.1

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

Benjamin, a rising star filmmaker, is on the brink of premiering his difficult second film No Self at the London Film Festival when Billie, his hard drinking publicist, introduces ...

#3
Almost Friends

Almost Friends

2017★ 6.3

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

A man in his mid-20s, still living at home with his mother and stepfather, puts all his eggs in one basket: the girl who works at his local coffee shop. The problem is, she has a s...

#4
Dirty Sexy Saint

Dirty Sexy Saint

2019★ 6.3

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

Clay Kincaid hates the nickname 'Saint', he got for being too kind to stray animals and desperate people. Especially when it comes to women. With a rough and damaged past that has ...

#5
Flower & Snake: Zero

Flower & Snake: Zero

2014★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Yearn For for fans of Drama. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Misaki Amemiya is an assistant inspector for the Metropolitan Police Department's Community Safety Bureau who becomes ensnared in a trap while investigating a mysterious illegal vi...

#6
Five Dances

Five Dances

2013★ 6.3

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

A gifted young dancer arrives in New York City and joins the downtown contemporary dance world. With talent to burn, he soon must choose between his responsibility to his broken fa...

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