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10 Best Movies Like The Drowning

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

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#1
It's Kind of a Funny Story

It's Kind of a Funny Story

2010★ 6.9

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

A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward....

#2
The Double

The Double

2014★ 6.5

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

An awkward office drone becomes increasingly unhinged after a charismatic and confident look-alike takes a job at his workplace and seduces the woman he desires....

#3
Neverwas

Neverwas

2005★ 6.4

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

Zach Riley is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, Millwood. What he doesn't reveal at the time o...

#4
A Dry White Season

A Dry White Season

1989★ 6.6

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

During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody....

#5
Stay

Stay

2005★ 6.6

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

Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- e...

#6
The Last Word

The Last Word

2008★ 5.8

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

An odd-but-gifted poet, Evan Merck makes his living writing suicide notes for the soon-to-be departed. So when he meets Charlotte, the free-spirited sister of his latest client, Ev...

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