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10 Best Movies Like The Drowning Pool

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

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#1
Canadian Bacon

Canadian Bacon

1995★ 5.7

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

The U.S. President, low in the opinion polls, gets talked into raising his popularity by trying to start a cold war with Canada....

#2
The Silence

The Silence

1963★ 7.5

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

Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic i...

#3
The Hiding Place

The Hiding Place

1975★ 6.8

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

Corrie and Betsie ten Boom are middle-aged sisters working in their father's watchmaker shop in pre-World War II Holland. Their uneventful lives are disrupted with the coming of th...

#4
Sometimes a Great Notion

Sometimes a Great Notion

1971★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Drowning Pool for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Hank Stamper and his father, Henry, own and operate the family business by cutting and shipping logs in Oregon. The town is furious when they continue working despite the town goin...

#5
Unsane

Unsane

2018★ 6.2

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

A woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution where she is confronted by her greatest fear....

#6
The Omen

The Omen

1976★ 7.4

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

Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the...