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10 Best Movies Like Carbon & Water

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

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#1
Squatters

Squatters

2014★ 6.0

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

A wealthy couple from the Pacific Palisades discovers homeless young lovers have moved into their home....

#2
Beach Rats

Beach Rats

2017★ 6.0

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

On the outskirts of Brooklyn, Frankie, an aimless teenager, suffocates under the oppressive glare cast by his family and a toxic group of delinquent friends. Struggling with his ow...

#3
The Book of Love

The Book of Love

2017★ 6.5

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

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, a...

#4
Some Came Running

Some Came Running

1958★ 7.0

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

A former novelist returns to his small Midwest town after serving in the Army during WWII, to the chagrin of his social-climbing brother, and becomes close with an easy-going profe...

#5
Wendy and Lucy

Wendy and Lucy

2008★ 6.8

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

A near-penniless drifter's journey to Alaska in search of work is interrupted when she loses her dog while attempting to shoplift food for it....

#6
Laggies

Laggies

2014★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Carbon & Water for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Overeducated and underemployed, 28 year old Megan is in the throes of a quarterlife crisis. Squarely into adulthood with no career prospects, no particular motivation to think abou...

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