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10 Best Movies Like MAKOTO

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

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#1
Be with You

Be with You

2004★ 7.5

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

Takumi and his six-year-old son, Yuji, haven't come to terms with their wife and mother's death. One day, they meet a woman with an uncanny resemblance to her sheltering from the r...

#2
Winter's Tale

Winter's Tale

2014★ 6.3

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

A burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift of reincarnation, he sets out to save her....

#3
The Man Who Laughs

The Man Who Laughs

1928★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to MAKOTO for fans of Drama & Romance & Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

When a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly executed and his son surgically disfigured....

#4
Nine Lives

Nine Lives

2005★ 6.1

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

Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life....

#5
Vital

Vital

2004★ 6.7

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

A young man awakens in the hospital after an accident wipes his memory. Fascinated by a textbook full of drawings of dissections, Hiroshi is drawn to medical school. There he catch...

#6
The Thinning: New World Order

The Thinning: New World Order

2018★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to MAKOTO for fans of Drama & Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Blake Redding is trapped in this dark room wanting to protect his love so the only thing he will do is escape like no failed student has done before....

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