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10 Best Movies Like Cold Water

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

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#1
Smoke

Smoke

1995★ 7.2

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

Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul tells homeless Rashid that he w...

#2
Alex of Venice

Alex of Venice

2015★ 5.9

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

After her stay-at-home husband leaves her, a workaholic lawyer finds that she is not completely up to the tasks of caring for her young son, ailing father and household all by hers...

#3
The Nest

The Nest

2020★ 6.1

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

Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of the...

#4
Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

1941★ 6.0

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

Happily married for three years, Ann and David Smith live in New York. One morning Ann asks David if he had to do it over again, would he marry her? To her shock, he answers, "No"....

#5
Witness for the Prosecution

Witness for the Prosecution

1957★ 8.2

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

An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man...

#6
Laurel Canyon

Laurel Canyon

2003★ 6.0

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

When an uptight young man and his fiancée move into his libertine mother's house, the resulting clash of life attitudes shakes everyone up....

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