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10 Best Movies Like Wax Light

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

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#1
Lilith

Lilith

1964★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Wax Light for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Vincent Bruce, a war veteran, begins working as an occupational therapist at Poplar Lodge, a private psychiatric facility for wealthy people where he meets Lilith Arthur, a charmin...

#2
David and Lisa

David and Lisa

1962★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Wax Light for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Teenager David Clemens develops a hysterical fear that he will die if he comes into physical contact with another person. Perturbed, David's overbearing mother places him in a home...

#3
On the Edge

On the Edge

2001★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Wax Light for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A suicidal young man is committed to a Dublin psychiatric hospital where he meets new friends who greatly influence his life....

#4
Remember Sunday

Remember Sunday

2013★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Wax Light for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A lonely, down-on-her-luck waitress meets a handsome, quirky jewelry store clerk and thinks that maybe, finally, she's met Mr. Right. The more Molly gets to know Gus, the more she'...

#5
Neverwas

Neverwas

2005★ 6.4

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

Zach Riley is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, Millwood. What he doesn't reveal at the time o...

#6
Asylum

Asylum

2005★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Wax Light for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A woman becomes very curious about one of her psychiatrist husband's inmates, a man who was found guilty in the murder and disfigurement of his former wife....

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