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10 Best Movies Like Hovering Over the Water

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

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#1
Brokedown Palace

Brokedown Palace

1999★ 6.4

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

Best friends Alice and Darlene take a trip to Thailand after graduating high school. In Thailand, they meet a captivating Australian man, who calls himself Nick Parks. Darlene is p...

#2
Summer of '42

Summer of '42

1971★ 6.7

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

Over the summer of 1942 on Nantucket Island, three friends -- Hermie, Oscy and Benjie -- are more concerned with getting laid than anything else. Hermie falls in love with the marr...

#3
Stealing Beauty

Stealing Beauty

1996★ 6.7

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

Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy visited there four years earlier...

#4
Reaching for the Moon

Reaching for the Moon

2013★ 6.6

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

In 1951, New York poet Elizabeth Bishop travels to Rio de Janeiro to visit Mary, a college friend. The shy Elizabeth is overwhelmed by Brazilian sensuality. She is the antithesis t...

#5
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

1947★ 7.5

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

In 1900, young widow Lucy Muir learns that her seaside cottage is haunted and forms a unique relationship with the ghost....

#6
Adoration

Adoration

2013★ 6.1

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

Lil and Roz are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which bind...

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