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10 Best Movies Like Tokyo Anyway

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

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#1
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Tokyo Anyway 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...

#2
The Passengers of the Night

The Passengers of the Night

2022★ 6.9

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

On election night in 1981, celebrations spill out onto the street and there is an air of hope and change throughout Paris. But for Elisabeth, her marriage is coming to an end and s...

#3
Angry Annie

Angry Annie

2022★ 7.6

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

Annie becomes pregnant. Since she doesn't want to keep the child, she meets a movement that performs illegal abortions. But, in the seventies, Annie will encounter allies and oppon...

#4
Eden Is West

Eden Is West

2009★ 6.2

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

Desperate to break free from the poverty of his homeland, Elias boards a ramshackle people-smuggling trawler to France. But when the boat is raided by police, Elias leaps into the ...

#5
Paris 36

Paris 36

2008★ 6.1

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

A star is born in a time of both celebration and instability in this historical drama with music from director Christophe Barratier. In the spring of 1936, Paris is in a state of u...

#6
The Minister

The Minister

2011★ 6.4

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

Transport Minister Bertrand Saint-Jean is awoken in the middle of the night by his head of staff. A bus has gone off the road into a gully. He has no choice but to go to the scene ...

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