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10 Best Movies Like Midnight Swan

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

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#1
Close-Knit

Close-Knit

2017★ 7.1

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

After being neglected by her mother, a little girl is taken in by her uncle and his transgender girlfriend, who create a loving home for her....

#2
Her Love Boils Bathwater

Her Love Boils Bathwater

2016★ 7.4

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

After being diagnosed with a terminal illness, Futaba resolves to spend her remaining time reuniting her broken family, reopening the long-closed bathhouse, and helping her shy dau...

#3
Café Lumière

Café Lumière

2004★ 6.7

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

In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a writer investigating the life of a modernist composer of the 1930s. She is pregna...

#4
Rage

Rage

2016★ 6.8

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

A man brutally murders a married couple and leaves the word “ikari” (“rage”) written with their blood. The killer undergoes plastic surgery and flees. At three different locations ...

#5
The Boy and the Beast

The Boy and the Beast

2015★ 7.9

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

Kyuta, a boy living in Shibuya, and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast from Jutengai, an imaginary world. One day, Kyuta forays into the imaginary world and, as he's looking for his way b...

#6
Before We Vanish

Before We Vanish

2017★ 6.5

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

Narumi is on bad terms with her husband, Shinji, when, one day, Shinji goes missing. He comes back a couple of days later, but he seems like a totally different person, and he is n...

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