Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 19, 2026

10 Best Movies Like About Swimming

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

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#1
Bruised

Bruised

2021★ 6.8

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

Jackie Justice is a mixed martial arts fighter who leaves the sport in disgrace. Down on her luck and simmering with rage and regret years after the fight, she's coaxed into a brut...

#2
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to About Swimming 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...

#3
Mindwalk

Mindwalk

1991★ 6.9

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

On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Jack, a failed presidential candidate, Tom, his ex-speechwriter and Sonia, a physicist, engage in an intellectual conversation about poli...

#4
Almost Friends

Almost Friends

2017★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to About Swimming for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A man in his mid-20s, still living at home with his mother and stepfather, puts all his eggs in one basket: the girl who works at his local coffee shop. The problem is, she has a s...

#5
Désirée

Désirée

1954★ 6.5

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

In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding General Jean-Baptiste Berandotte, an aid to ...

#6
Ping Pong Playa

Ping Pong Playa

2008★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to About Swimming for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Streetwise swaggering Christopher "C-Dub" Wang is a suburban guy who waxes political on all things Asian American and clings to pro basketball pipe dreams. But when misfortune stri...

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