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10 Best Movies Like The Breakthrough

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

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#1
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020★ 6.2

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

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....

#2
Vanya on 42nd Street

Vanya on 42nd Street

1994★ 6.6

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

An uninterrupted rehearsal of Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya' plays out by a company of actors. The setting: their run-down theater with an unusable stage and crumbling ceiling. The play i...

#3
Naked Harbour

Naked Harbour

2012★ 5.8

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

In a multicultural suburb of Helsinki, a bullied Russian immigrant decides to fight back, a young woman dreams of superstardom at any cost, and a junkie couple schemes their way ou...

#4
True Colors

True Colors

1991★ 6.2

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

Two law school friends find themselves at odds when one becomes a Justice Department lawyer and the other goes into politics....

#5
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Breakthrough 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...

#6
All Together Now

All Together Now

2020★ 6.7

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

An optimistic, talented teen clings to a huge secret: she's homeless and living on a school bus. When tragedy strikes, can she learn to accept a helping hand?...

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