10 Best Movies Like Awkward
If you loved Awkward, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

The River
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Awkward for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer a...

Closeness
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Awkward for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
1998, Nalchik. A Jewish family is in trouble: the youngest son and his bride do not come home, and in the morning, a ransom note arrives. The ransom is so high that the family is f...

The Young One
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Awkward for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

The Safety of Objects
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Awkward for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, an...

Come Sunday
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Awkward for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell....

My Friend Ivan Lapshin
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Awkward for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well....