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10 Best Movies Like Dark Waters

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

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#1
Erin Brockovich

Erin Brockovich

2000★ 7.4

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

A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work for an attorney and comes across...

#2
Wrong Turn

Wrong Turn

2003★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dark Waters for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic moun...

#3
Reversal of Fortune

Reversal of Fortune

1990★ 6.6

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

Wealthy Sunny von Bülow lies brain-dead, husband Claus guilty of attempted murder; but he says he's innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal....

#4
Absence of Malice

Absence of Malice

1981★ 6.6

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

Megan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on Michael Gallagher, a suspected racketeer. He has an alibi for the time his crime was allegedly committed—but it inv...

#5
Collision

Collision

2022★ 5.8

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

Over the course of one fateful day, a corrupt businessman and his socialite wife race to save their daughter from a notorious crime lord....

#6
The Parallax View

The Parallax View

1974★ 6.8

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

An ambitious reporter gets in trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the...

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