Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 14, 2026

10 Best Movies Like By the Sea

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

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#1
Fanny

Fanny

1961★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to By the Sea for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Almost 19-year-old Marius feels himself in a rut in Marseille, his life planned for him by his cafe'-owning father, and he longs for the sea. The night before he is to leave on a 5...

#2
A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate

A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate

1923★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to By the Sea for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave for Paris on her own. After spending a year in the city as a mistress of the wealt...

#3
Third Person

Third Person

2014★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to By the Sea for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An acclaimed novelist struggles to write an analysis of love in one of three stories, each set in a different city, that detail the beginning, middle and end of a relationship....

#4
Something's Gotta Give

Something's Gotta Give

2003★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to By the Sea for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

When perpetually single, aging music industry exec Harry Sanborn, and his latest trophy girlfriend, Marin, arrive at her mother's beach house in the Hamptons, they find that her mo...

#5
The Last Time I Saw Paris

The Last Time I Saw Paris

1954★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to By the Sea for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Reporter Charles Wills, in Paris to cover the end of World War II, falls for the beautiful Helen Ellswirth following a brief flirtation with her sister, Marion. After he and Helen ...

#6
Maudie

Maudie

2016★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to By the Sea for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis falls in love with a fishmonger while working for him as a live-in housekeeper....

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