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10 Best Movies Like Beautiful Awakening

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

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#1
Pink Narcissus

Pink Narcissus

1971★ 6.2

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

An outrageous erotic poem focusing on the daydreams of a beautiful boy prostitute who, from the seclusion of his ultra-kitsch apartment, conceives a series of interlinked narcissis...

#2
Tokyo Decadence

Tokyo Decadence

1992★ 6.0

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

A submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yakuza types. She's unhappy about her work, and is apparently trying to find some s...

#3
The Eel

The Eel

1997★ 6.9

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

A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking to almost no one except for an eel he befrien...

#4
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Beautiful Awakening 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...

#5
Female Yakuza Tale

Female Yakuza Tale

1973★ 6.2

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

Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs into Japan by hiding it in their vaginas. She is tortured, and manages to escape, ...

#6
BLAME!

BLAME!

2017★ 6.5

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

In the distant technological future, civilization has reached its ultimate Net-based form. An "infection" in the past caused the automated systems to spiral out of order, resulting...

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