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10 Best Movies Like Lanterns on Blue Waters

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

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#1
Tigertail

Tigertail

2020★ 6.7

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

A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter....

#2
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Lanterns on Blue Waters 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....

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2020★ 6.7

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

Early morning silence is broken by screeching tires as a helicopter bears down on a speeding vehicle. Taking a quick corner, the team tumbles out into the woods as their car pulls ...

#4
Harmonium

Harmonium

2016★ 6.6

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

Toshio hires Yasaka to work in his workshop. But then this old acquaintance, who has just been released from prison, begins to meddle in Toshio's family life....

#5
The Ballad of Narayama

The Ballad of Narayama

1983★ 7.5

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

In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their ...

#6
Mindwalk

Mindwalk

1991★ 6.9

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

On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Jack, a failed presidential candidate, Tom, a poet and Sonia, a physicist, engage in an intellectual conversation about politics, philoso...

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