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10 Best Movies Like Message in a Bottle

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

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#1
For Love of the Game

For Love of the Game

1999★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Message in a Bottle for fans of Romance & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A baseball legend almost finished with his distinguished career at the age of forty has one last chance to prove who he is, what he is capable of, and win the heart of the woman he...

#2
Leading Lady

Leading Lady

2014★ 5.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Message in a Bottle for fans of Romance & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

An idealistic British drama school teacher, Jodi Rutherford, persuades a cynical South African farmer to prepare her for a role in a major film as an Afrikaans war heroine. In retu...

#3
Poltergay

Poltergay

2006★ 5.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Message in a Bottle for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Marc and Emma move into a new house but have no idea that their basement was a gay nightclub. To make matters worse, the club was destroyed by fire, and now the house is haunted by...

#4
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge

Mr. & Mrs. Bridge

1990★ 6.0

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

Set during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his children....

#5
15 Minutes of Shame

15 Minutes of Shame

2021★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Message in a Bottle for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Monica Lewinsky and filmmaker Max Joseph (Catfish) examine the human price of public shaming and cyber-harassment, profiling people who have experienced them first-hand – while inv...

#6
Still Crazy

Still Crazy

1998★ 6.8

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

In the 1970s, Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, internal tension and an ex front man dead from an overdose. Even their demise was gl...