Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 16, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Breakwater

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

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#1
Wormwood

Wormwood

2017★ 6.9

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

In this genre-bending tale, Errol Morris explores the mysterious death of a U.S. scientist entangled in a secret Cold War program known as MK-Ultra....

#2
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Breakwater 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
Van Gogh: Painted with Words

Van Gogh: Painted with Words

2010★ 7.3

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

A drama-documentary presented by Alan Yentob, with Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead role. Every word spoken by the actors in this film is sourced from the letters that Van Gogh sen...

#4
The Good Neighbor

The Good Neighbor

2022★ 6.5

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

A nightmarish evening unfolds for neighbors David and Robert when they accidentally hit a woman on her bike and flee the scene. While David is increasingly plagued by feelings of g...

#5
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Breakwater 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....

#6
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020★ 6.2

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

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....

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