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10 Best Movies Like Yakushima's Illusion

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

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#1
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Yakushima's Illusion 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
Secret Name

Secret Name

2021★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Yakushima's Illusion for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Nelie escaped a miserable existence by becoming a frontline nurse in 1914. One day, she takes the identity of Rose, a young woman from a good family, who dies in front of her. She ...

#3
At Work

At Work

2026★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Yakushima's Illusion for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A successful photographer gives up everything to devote himself to writing and discovers poverty....

#4
In the Beginning

In the Beginning

2009★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Yakushima's Illusion for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

France, present day. A professional conman passes himself off as the boss of a construction site building a highway extension. He cons the whole region, hires dozens of workers and...

#5
The Last Woman

The Last Woman

1976★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Yakushima's Illusion for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Psychological drama of the compelling relationship between a young French engineer and the girl he takes into his home after his wife has left him with their baby son....

#6
The Padre

The Padre

2018★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Yakushima's Illusion for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

American retired Judge Randall Nemes and his hired gun, Gaspar, track down a con man posing as a priest in a small Colombian town only to be thrown off-course by a scrappy 16-year-...

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