Movies like Wakefield (2017)
The best movies like Wakefield (2017) are Lucky (2017), All of This Unreal Time (2021) and The Book of Love (2017). If Wakefield hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedRequiem for a Dream (2000)8.0/10 from 11,470 votes
- NewestThe Thing with Feathers (2025)Released 2025
Lucky (2017)
Follows the journey of a 90-year-old atheist and the quirky characters that inhabit his off-the-map desert town. He finds himself at the precipice of life, thrust into a journey of self-exploration.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAll of This Unreal Time (2021)
On a journey from darkness into light, a man explores his failings as a human being.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Book of Love (2017)
After tragedy strikes Henry and Penny, he befriends a tenacious young girl and discovers she is constructing a raft to sail across the Atlantic to find her lost father. Together, along with some unlikely friends, they set forth to construct the vessel and subsequently rebuild their lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAmerican Woman (2018)
A young grandmother in a small Pennsylvania town raises her daughter's child after the girl disappears. All the while, a desperate search for her continues.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAdam (2020)
A hard-living salesman becomes a quadriplegic after an accident.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSollers Point (2017)
Keith, a small-time drug dealer, is under house arrest at the home of his father in Baltimore. He re-enters a community scarred by unemployment, neglect and deeply entrenched segregation. There, he pushes back against his surrounding limitations as he tries to find a way out of his own internal prison.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
What They Had (2018)
A woman must fly back to her hometown when her Alzheimer's-stricken mother wanders into a blizzard. The return home forces her to confront her past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBattlecreek (2017)
Henry is a loner and a night owl. His rare skin disease has kept him under the close watch of his fiery mother, who has sheltered him his entire life. One night, a young woman's car breaks down and Henry's life will change forever.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Ticket (2016)
A blind man who regains his vision finds himself becoming metaphorically blinded by his obsession for the superficial.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisSubmission (2018)
A well-respected professor who is a celebrated novelist and loving husband loses himself when he becomes obsessed with an ambitious and talented student.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisDoubting Thomas (2018)
A white couple inexplicably gives birth to a black child, and the purest bonds of trust, love and friendship are put to the ultimate test.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Song of Sway Lake (2019)
In the wake of his father’s suicide, young record collector Ollie Sway returns to the family lake house with his friend Nikolai in tow to lay claim to an invaluable jazz recording. An unexpected visit from Ollie’s estranged grandmother and a chance encounter with a girl from across the lake derail their search, forcing them to confront the Sway family history and a suffering that has resounded through generations.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Three Christs (2017)
Dr. Alan Stone breaks new ground for treatment of the mentally ill through an experiment on three paranoid schizophrenic patients who believe they are Jesus Christ.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlackbird (2019)
A terminally ill mother invites her family to their country house for one final gathering, but tensions quickly boil over between her two daughters.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTater Tot & Patton (2017)
A wayward millennial escapes to a South Dakota ranch, unhinging her Uncle's placid alcoholic life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Nostalgia (2018)
A mosaic of stories about love and loss, exploring our relationship to the objects, artifacts, and memories that shape our lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Never Steady, Never Still (2017)
A mother struggles to take control of her life in the face of advanced Parkinson's disease, while her son battles his sexual and emotional identity amongst the violence of Alberta's oil field work camps.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
One Percent More Humid (2017)
A pair of childhood friends reunite during their summer break from college and deal with a traumatizing experience from their past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Mass (2021)
Two couples meet for a painful and raw conversation in the aftermath of a violent tragedy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Child in Time (2018)
A successful writer of children's books, Stephen Lewis is confronted with the unthinkable—he loses his only child, four-year-old Kate, in a supermarket. In one horrifying moment that replays itself over the years that follow, Stephen realises his daughter is gone. Kate's absence sets Stephen and his wife on diverging paths as both struggle with an all-consuming grief.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisSea Wall (2012)
A man makes sense of his life, love, family and the possibility of faith whilst facing an emotional abyss.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Suicide Theory (2014)
Steven Ray was never quite normal. But when tragedy strikes in the form of a deadly hit-and-run incident at a city cross walk, his violent and bizarre behavior becomes uncontrollable. One night, as Steven plots his next murder, he meets Percival, whose unsuccessful attempt at suicide not only interferes with Stevens plans, but the chance encounter also introduces the two into each others sad and lonely lives. Percival believes hes cursed after miraculously surviving each suicide attempt and concludes fate brought he and Steven together. So he hires Steven to assist him in suicide. Steven does not believe in fate and thinks Percival is desperate and delusional. But he accepts the offer. Easy money. After Percival continues to miraculously survive each attempt on his life, Steven starts to believe. He tries to help Percival figure out ways to break the curse. And in the process, they form an unlikely friendship through the common bond of tragedy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGod's Pocket (2014)
A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist and the young man's mother complicate matters.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisEmily & Tim (2015)
The movie is comprised of six vignettes. A look at the tumultuous marriage of Tim and Emily Hanratty over half a century.
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The Ravine (2022)
This true story begins on a weekday morning in a peaceful suburb of Akron, Ohio, the town awakens to discover that Rachel Turner and her son, Evan, have been brutally murdered during the night. A short while later, Danny Turner is found in his car at the bottom of a ravine, after having taken his own life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Turnabout (2016)
A troubled man survives a suicide attempt. He calls an old friend to rescue him in the middle of the night. Their journey is just beginning, and by daybreak, a tragedy will surface.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
11:55 (2017)
Upon his return home, a U.S. Marine must face up to the consequences of a shameful tragedy that has defined his past before he runs out of time.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Thing with Feathers (2025)
Following the death of his wife, a young father's hold on reality crumbles, and a strange presence begins to stalk him from the shadowy recesses of the apartment he shares with his two young sons.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDream Lover (1994)
Not long after they cross paths at an art gallery, architect Ray Reardon and hypnotically sensual Lena are married with children. But as strange incidents occur, Ray begins to realize he may not really know the woman he married.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRequiem for a Dream (2000)
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Wakefield?
The closest matches to Wakefield are Lucky (2017), All of This Unreal Time (2021) and The Book of Love (2017). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Wakefield?
People who watched Wakefield most often go on to Lucky (2017), All of This Unreal Time (2021) and The Book of Love (2017).
What is the highest-rated movie like Wakefield?
Requiem for a Dream (2000), rated 8.0/10 by 11,470 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Wakefield?
The Thing with Feathers (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Wakefield?
Yes: Lucky (2017), All of This Unreal Time (2021) and The Book of Love (2017).
How are movies similar to Wakefield chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Wakefield, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.