Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 09, 2026

10 Best Movies Like After the Quake

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

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#1
Fukushima 50

Fukushima 50

2020★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to After the Quake for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region is devastated by an earthquake...

#2
Memories

Memories

1995★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to After the Quake for fans of Fantasy. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Three back-to-back anime films by three different directors make up this sci-fi trilogy three years in the making....

#3
Dreams

Dreams

1990★ 7.7

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

Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier’s ghosts, a walk through Van Gogh’s canvases, nuclear nightmares, and a...

#4
Bubble

Bubble

2022★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to After the Quake for fans of Animation. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

In an abandoned Tokyo overrun by bubbles and gravitational abnormalities, one gifted young man has a fateful meeting with a mysterious girl....

#5
Suzume

Suzume

2022★ 7.9

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

Suzume, 17, lost her mother as a little girl. On her way to school, she meets a mysterious young man. But her curiosity unleashes a calamity that endangers the entire population of...

#6
Barefoot Gen 2

Barefoot Gen 2

1986★ 6.6

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

Three years after the Hiroshima bombing, a teenager helps a group of orphans to survive and find their new life....

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