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10 Best Movies Like When the Island Floats

If you loved When the Island Floats, 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 When the Island Floats 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
Man with No Past

Man with No Past

2025★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When the Island Floats for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Waking up in an unfamiliar city, a man with no memory must confront the mysteries of his own identity. However, his desperate search to uncover the past pits him against a powerful...

#3
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When the Island Floats 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...

#4
One Million Yen Girl

One Million Yen Girl

2008★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When the Island Floats for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her and family conflicts. She decides to save one million yen, move to where no one know...

#5
Here

Here

2024★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When the Island Floats 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...

#6
The Girl in the Book

The Girl in the Book

2015★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When the Island Floats for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present....

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