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10 Best Movies Like The Abyss

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

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#1
Lifeforce

Lifeforce

1985★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Abyss for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A race of space vampires arrives in London and infects the populace, commencing an apocalyptic descent into chaos....

#2
The Great War

The Great War

1959★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Abyss for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army....

#3
The Young Karl Marx

The Young Karl Marx

2017★ 6.8

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

26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 in Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist’s son, who has been investigating the sordid...

#4
Titanic

Titanic

1997★ 7.9

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

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and...

#5
PK

PK

2014★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Abyss for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A stranger in the city asks questions no one has asked before. Known only by his initials, the man's innocent questions and childlike curiosity take him on a journey of love, laugh...

#6
Ex Machina

Ex Machina

2015★ 7.6

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

Caleb, a coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But ...