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10 Best Movies Like Troubled Waters

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

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#1
Electricity

Electricity

2014★ 5.8

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

A woman leaves her seaside hometown to search for her long-lost brother, experiencing hallucinations brought on by her epilepsy during her trip....

#2
Return

Return

2011★ 6.4

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

Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes....

#3
Élisa

Élisa

1995★ 6.4

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

Marie has had a tough childhood ever since her mother Elisa committed suicide. She has spent most of her life in an orphanage and now makes a living as a small time criminal in Par...

#4
The Stranger

The Stranger

2025★ 6.8

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

In 1930s Algeria, the daily life of an indifferent Frenchman is shaken by the death of his mother and a fateful encounter on a beach....

#5
Mindwalk

Mindwalk

1991★ 6.9

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

On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Jack, a failed presidential candidate, Tom, his ex-speechwriter and Sonia, a physicist, engage in an intellectual conversation about poli...

#6
The Sower

The Sower

2017★ 6.0

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

In 1852, the mountain village in Provence where Violette lives is brutally deprived of all its men after the repression of the republicans ordered by Napoleon III. Women spend mont...

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