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10 Best Movies Like The New Road: Akemi

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

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#1
Shara

Shara

2003★ 6.5

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

The Aso family live in the old town of Nara. One Day, Kei, one of the Aso's twin boys suddenly disappears. Five years later seventeen-year old Shun, the remaining twin, is an art s...

#2
Skin

Skin

2009★ 6.4

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

Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era....

#3
Here

Here

2024★ 6.5

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

An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between cou...

#4
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The New Road: Akemi 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....

#5
Harmonium

Harmonium

2016★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The New Road: Akemi 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....

#6
Mindwalk

Mindwalk

1991★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The New Road: Akemi 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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