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10 Best Movies Like Awakening

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

#1
Autopsy

Autopsy

2007★ 4.9

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

Eric and Sarah are detectives who are investigating the murder of a professor which it seems like a gay hate crime. Married Eric becomes attracted to the pathologist, Emmanuel....

#2
Please Stay

Please Stay

2009★ 5.2

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

Right after a very intense sexual pleasure, Mikkel’s imaginative lover Marius dumps him and wants out of the relationship because Mikkel still fears to come out of the closet. He g...

#3
The Boy Who Couldn't Swim

The Boy Who Couldn't Swim

2011★ 5.9

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

Two teen boys meet each other in Copenhagen and team up to find one of the boys' mother. Instead they end up finding themselves - and each other....

#4
Re-Existences

Re-Existences

2020★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Awakening for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

“Re-Existence” is a documentary about migration stories of individuals from the Brazilian queer community....

#5
Last Ma(i)nland

Last Ma(i)nland

2024★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Awakening for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Photographer Grigory Yaroshenko gets a chance to visit Antarctica and learn about the life of polar explorers. But his wife is expecting their second child, and life changes. Grego...

#6
Liberation: Direction of the Main Blow

Liberation: Direction of the Main Blow

1970★ 6.0

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

This five part epic war drama gives a dramatized detailed account of Soviet Union's war against Nazi Germany during world war two. Each of the five parts represents a separate majo...