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10 Best Movies Like Derive

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

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#1
Mindwalk

Mindwalk

1991★ 6.9

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

On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Jack, a failed presidential candidate, Tom, his ex-speechwriter and Sonia, a physicist, engage in an intellectual conversation about poli...

#2
No Limit

No Limit

2022★ 6.0

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

Roxana Aubrey decides to drop her studies and escape her life in Paris for a free diving course in the south of France. She is quickly pulled into a life that reaches new depths br...

#3
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

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

#4
Uncontrollable Circumstances

Uncontrollable Circumstances

1989★ 6.2

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

Philippe and Daniel decide to go on vacation Southeast Asia, where they meet Hans, a European who livesthere and he becomes their guide and host. Once the holidays are over, before...

#5
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

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

#6
Betty

Betty

1992★ 6.5

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

A drunken, self-destructive woman called Betty wanders into a Parisian bar where she meets middle-aged alcoholic Laure. Laure decides to take care of Betty. Recovering in a hotel r...

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