
10 Best Movies Like Breaking the Waves
If you loved Breaking the Waves, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Young Adam
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Breaking the Waves for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river than he admits....

Brimstone
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Breaking the Waves for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In the menacing inferno of the old North-American West, Liz is a genuine survivor who is hunted by a vengeful preacher for a crime she didn’t commit....

Ratcatcher
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Breaking the Waves for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
James Gillespie is 12 years old. The world he knew is changing. Haunted by a secret, he has become a stranger in his own family. He is drawn to the canal where he creates a world o...

Clash by Night
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Breaking the Waves for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband’s best friend....

Come Sunday
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Breaking the Waves for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell....

Shell
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Breaking the Waves for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Abandoned by her mother when she was a child, Shell has stayed to take care of her dying father but now feels trapped within the beautiful but desolate landscape that surrounds her...