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10 Best Movies Like Gods Are Watching

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

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#1
One Second

One Second

2020★ 7.3

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

A movie fan escapes from a labour camp during the Chinese Cultural Revolution and strikes up a relationship with a homeless female vagabond....

#2
Adopt a Highway

Adopt a Highway

2019★ 6.7

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

Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a 3rd strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn’t...

#3
Buddha Mountain

Buddha Mountain

2011★ 6.9

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

In Chengdu, China, a retired female opera singer named Master Chang takes in a trio of young tenants into her boarding home. The tenants include a rock singer and a college student...

#4
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Gods Are Watching 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
Mr. Tree

Mr. Tree

2011★ 7.2

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

Teased by hallucinations, Shu, a slacker living in a rural village, struggles with an ever-loosening grip on reality. Yet when one of his visions manifests as real, his fellow vill...

#6
What Time Is It There?

What Time Is It There?

2001★ 7.0

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

A street vendor with a grim home-life forges a connection with a young woman on her way to Paris....

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