Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 10, 2026

10 Best Movies Like The Wake

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

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#1
Cardboard Boxer

Cardboard Boxer

2016★ 6.3

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

Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl....

#2
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020★ 6.2

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

#3
Norman

Norman

2010★ 6.1

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

A teenager pretends to be dying from cancer as a way to cope with the realities of his daily existence and his father's terminal illness....

#4
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Wake 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
Vanya on 42nd Street

Vanya on 42nd Street

1994★ 6.6

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

#6
Mindwalk

Mindwalk

1991★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Wake 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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