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10 Best Movies Like Anticipation

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

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#1
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020★ 6.2

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

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....

#2
Harmonium

Harmonium

2016★ 6.6

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

Toshio hires Yasaka to work in his workshop. But then this old acquaintance, who has just been released from prison, begins to meddle in Toshio's family life....

#3
7th & Union

7th & Union

2021★ 7.6

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

Ex-fighter Raymundo forms an unlikely bond with a disgruntled man whose life and relationship with his daughter are unraveling. The men join forces to win a fight that could very w...

#4
Hands of Stone

Hands of Stone

2016★ 6.6

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

The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives....

#5
Taboo

Taboo

1999★ 6.6

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

Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of interpersonal conflicts are brewing in t...

#6
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

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

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of gettin...

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