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10 Best Movies Like The Wave

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

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#1
The Experiment

The Experiment

2010★ 6.4

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

20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control....

#2
Dirty Teacher

Dirty Teacher

2013★ 5.8

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

When a high school senior discovers her teacher is seducing her boyfriend, events turn deadly after the teacher tries to cover it up....

#3
Cheaters

Cheaters

2000★ 6.2

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

In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition....

#4
Brave the Dark

Brave the Dark

2025★ 6.6

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

When Mr. Deen discovers one of his students has been living out of his car and thrown into jail, he decides to bail him out. Determined to curb Nate’s self-destructive behavior, De...

#5
Won't Back Down

Won't Back Down

2012★ 6.1

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

Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken...

#6
Experimenter

Experimenter

2015★ 6.5

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

Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affa...

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