Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 09, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Breathe

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

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#1
La Promesse

La Promesse

1996★ 7.2

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

Igor, aged 15, and his father Roger deal in housing and peddling illicit labor in the outlying districts of Liege, Belgium. Scams, lies and swindling rule their lives. When one of ...

#2
Souleymane's Story

Souleymane's Story

2024★ 7.5

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

As he pedals through the streets of Paris to deliver meals, Souleymane recounts his story. In two days, he has to go through his asylum application interview, the key to obtaining ...

#3
Riceboy Sleeps

Riceboy Sleeps

2023★ 7.1

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

In the 1990s, an immigrant single mother raises her teenage son in the Canadian suburbs, determined to provide a better life for him than the one she left behind in South Korea....

#4
The Lords of Discipline

The Lords of Discipline

1983★ 6.6

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

Will arrives for his last year at Military Academy, in the Deep South USA, in the 1960's. A black student, Pearce, has been accepted, for the first time and Will is asked to keep a...

#5
Parisienne

Parisienne

2016★ 5.9

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

18-year-old Lina arrives in Paris for her studies. She comes to look for what she has never found in Lebanon, her country of origin: a certain form of freedom. The survival instinc...

#6
Bomb City

Bomb City

2017★ 7.1

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

An ongoing feud between punk rockers and a more affluent clique in a small Texas town leads to a hate crime....

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